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butterfly knitting patterns by animalknitdom

Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for... what, a week?

They've counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care

pwlanier

Butterflies and moths.

Rare entomological collection of Doctor Kovach undertaken in 1905.

Courtesy Alain Truong

ousia-poetica

The Russian artist and passionate about nature, Anastasia Trusova, works with what she calls “Textured Graphic Impressionism”, a unique style.

niuniente

Traditional European Christmas time monsters, photographer across the Europe by Charles Fréger.

ryan-sometimes

If you're at my funeral and you think it's a little boring, just spice it up. Drink a little too much. Flirt with a few people here and there. Start a fight. It's what I would've wanted

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i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

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@onenicebugperday

onenicebugperday

Thank you for your service, Tim Wong!

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Encounter by Lily Seika Jones

watercolour & ink

totefischy

some of the neatest stuff from the shop where i work - fossils (1/2)

thoodleoo

*takes you on a museum date and proceeds to explain the most disgusting and bizarre facts to you with unveiled excitement*

mineralsandsomerocks

Adamite

Locality: Unknown

shadyufo

Just posted a little Etsy shop update! Giant vials of rainbow gemstones, hand-painted creepy crawly desert badger skulls, and a lovely curiosity collection!

pangur-and-grim

I’ve been trying hard to think of what should come next (big-project-wise), and……folks I might have it.

so these are all insects I caught and pinned as part of an Entomology class. the process of finding a particularly large or beautiful one was THRILLING, with the cleanly ordered and labelled box at the end being a satisfying climax, and now I can look at it on my wall every day and get happy all over again

and I’ve been thinking about how neat it would be to have a collection like this, but a little bit off. like the mutated insects of Chernobyl, catalogued and illustrated by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

or the randomly occurring mutations you can find elsewhere, like bilateral gyandromoprhs

or colour morphs

or the rogue taxidermy people compile out of insect parts and bone

or from different insects taken apart and reconstructed

there seems to be so much potential!

I love the idea of making semi-natural enamel insects from different themes, in varying sizes and complexities, with multiple colour morphs per design, so that you can pick from what appeals to you month by month and over time assemble a collection that can be hung and displayed like a natural science curio box

though they could alternately be framed individually, particularly if the design is a large and complex one

and all these ‘unreal’ insect species together would be a like one of those artist-made bestiaries full of imagined creatures

I’m actually thinking of doing this as a kickstarter, so leaving the store to guest artists in October, and launching this with a batch of enamel insects + stretch goals in November. could also do things like include a step-by-step on how to build your own display box!

but first I need to test the water - how do we feel about this idea?

EDIT: for clarity, I’m talking about enamel pins and not actual dead things

pangur-and-grim

it ended up not being a kickstarter because I had a surprise contract drop in my lap, and instead I’ve been releasing one each month!

October was Black Witch Moths (Ascalapha odorata)