Today for #ArtAdventCalendar, I have all of the insects I painted in 2024 for #Invertober (I missed it this year, due to moving). Rather than going with the official prompt list, I focused on invertebrates found in my home state of Colorado.

#SciArt #InvertArt #InsectArt #watercolor

#Invertober Set 2!

4: Palmetto Weevil
5: Painted Spiny Lobster
6: Buff-tip Moth

Took me a hot minute but I'm finally back in the game 🥓 #Invertober

1: Japanese Sea Nettle
2: Red-banded Leafhopper
3: Giant Green Anemone

My slightly late offering for day ten of #invertober (common earthworm) 🪱

Did you know earthworms have a special lip-like first head segment called a prostomium (meaning 'before the mouth')? They use it to sense and manipulate food, and move through soil!

#SoilBiodiversity #Macrophotography #Entomology #Earthworm #SoilEcology #Soil #Nature

Today is World Egg Day so here's a painting I did for #Invertober last year of a sweet mama desert centipede and her clutch of eggs.

Centipedes never actually meet to reproduce - males just drop off a spermatophore somewhere on the ground for a female to pick up and inseminate herself with later. Females do all the parenting, too, protecting, feeding, and even grooming her clutch of baby 'pedes.

#SciArt #InvertArt #centipede

Scaly foot gastropod, and bee killer robber fly :)

#Invertober #Invertober2025 #HEAVYPAINT #MastoArt

Painted spiny lobster, and buff tip moth :)

#Invertober #Invertober2025 #MastoArt #Krita

Japanese Sea Nettle, Red Banded Leafhopper, Giant Green Anemone, and Palmetto Weevil!

#Invertober #Invertober2025 #MastoArt #Krita

For #Arachtober today I have another painting I did for #Invertober last year, of a Boulder cave pseudoscorpion - Larca boulderica. First discovered by a particularly curious family of cavers in 2008, the species was finally formally described as a unique species last year.

#SciArt #InvertArt #arachnid