surviving memeber of its own order Vampyromorphida. It survives in the deep sea thanks to bioluminescent organs and its unique slow oxygen metabolism. Made for #InsertAnInvert2024.
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At long last, the final four #InsertAnInvert2024 keyrings are listed in my Etsy Shop!
Collection of all 12 keychain designs for #InsertAnInvert2024! Species are in the alt text.
All but four are available in my Etsy shop, and those will be added soon.
Finally the last #InsertAnInvert2024 keyring design, Velvet Worms! The prompt was Peripatopsis capensis, which is the black/brown one, but I'm doing some color variations for fun.
(Yes, I will take a group shot at some point. And get them all listed on my Etsy shop.)
Finished Lined Earwig keyring design for December's "Motion" theme for #InsertAnInvert2024. I really liked the red/black/tan color scheme.
(Almost done! One to go.)
Dunno if anyone still follows the tag, but I finally got my #InsertAnInvert2024 Flower Hat Jelly (not actually a jellyfish) printed! It required me to get my Multi-material setup, uh, set up. (I had already planned to do so over the holidays.)
Two more designs to go!
For the last day of 2024, #InverteFest, #InsertAnInvert2024 wildcard: This linocut shows three fireflies (Photinus pyralis, the common eastern firefly or big dipper firefly) in a field against the night sky. These bioluminescent insects are the most common firefly in North America and they use the light organ on their abdomen to π§΅1/2
#linocut #printmaking #washi #collage #fireflies #bioluminescence #sciart #insect #glowInTheDark #InverteFest2024 #MastoArt
For the final #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt βdivingβ and for #invertefest this is a hand-printed of the Paroster pallescens beetle, surface diving water beetle from Australia. It is printed on 8β x 8β Japanese paper.
Paroster is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae. I really liked the look of this beetle and the amazing diversity of this genus of Australian diving beetles!
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1793686974
#linocut #printmaking #insect #beetle #entomology #divingBeetle #sciart #MastoArt
For #insertAnInvert a print about how monarch butterflies who are fooled into laying eggs on the invasive dog-strangling vine (European swallowwort, Vincetoxicum rossicum) due to its similarities to its host plant milkweed are cursed to hatch larvae which starve and die. Dog-strangling vine unlike milkweed doesnβt serve as a food source for the caterpillars, π§΅1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #monarchButterfly #urbanEcology #invasiveSpecies #speciesAtRisk #insertAnInvert2024 #MastoArt
Ele Willoughby, PhD
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