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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD
@lindzeamays.bsky.social
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Science Illustrator | Arthropod Artist
"Where no crawly is creepy"
🧬 Research figures, logos, branding, assets
🌽PhD | plant biology, entomology

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD @lindzeamays.bsky.social · Jan 28
Hi there! #Portfolioday
I'm Lindsay, a freelancing arthropod artist and science illustrator academically trained in plant biology and entomology.

I enjoy creating research figures, logos, and other graphics for scientists and biz owners! 💚

Commissions open.⬇️
Lindzeamays.com/portfolio

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Illustrated research figure showing the lifecycle of the blunt nosed leafhopper synchronized with cranberry seasonal growth stages. Fully rendered logo for the Delaware Orchid Society. Research figure depicting integrated pest management methods for controlling lepidopteran pests. Illustrated lab logo for Dr. Torrance Hanley.
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#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Quick ~1 hr colored pencil sketch of a Megarhyssa wasp. The queen of parasitoids. 💚

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Colored pencil sketch of a Megarhyssa parasitoid wasp inserting her ovipositor into the bark of a tree.
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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🌿Life in the Undergrowth🌿
Hand-drawn by me in Procreate.
Now available on merch in my print shop!

Lindzeamays.com/printshop
Free US shipping on $30+ w/ coupon code LOVEBUGS30

I appreciate your support for a small time creator. 💚

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Where no crawly is creepy!
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Poster advertising a science illustration featuring hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart. Poster advertising prints and stickers of a science illustration with hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart. Poster advertising comfy unisex tees featuring an original science illustration with hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart.
October 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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🌿Life in the Undergrowth🌿
Hand-drawn by me in Procreate.
Now available on merch in my print shop!

Lindzeamays.com/printshop
Free US shipping on $30+ w/ coupon code LOVEBUGS30

I appreciate your support for a small time creator. 💚

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Where no crawly is creepy!
Lindzeamays Illustration
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Poster advertising a science illustration featuring hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart. Poster advertising prints and stickers of a science illustration with hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart. Poster advertising comfy unisex tees featuring an original science illustration with hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart.
October 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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🌿Life in the Undergrowth🌿
My new spooky autumn design that celebrates the tiny overlooked organisms who live amongst the soil, moss, and mushrooms.

Prints, soft unisex tees, & more at:
LindZeamays.com/printshop

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Digital drawing of various undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart.
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The Art of Transition Series: Monarch Butterfly (2025). Acrylic on canvas, 16x20".
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Acrylic painting featuring a monarch butterfly emerging from their chrysalis.
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The Art of Transition Series: Cicada. (2025) Acrylic on canvas, 16x20".
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Acrylic painting featuring a green and yellow cicada emerging from a red and orange molt.
October 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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✨Thirteen✨
Favorite Doctor + favorite Doctor Who Quote.🎨

I adored Jodie Whittaker's portrayal of the Doctor. The bright color palette, creative whimsy, the social awkwardness, caring deeply for her companions despite not always being able to express it. Y'all, I felt seen with this one. 🥹💚
Digital painting of the 13th doctor and TARDIS from the BBC's Doctor Who series alongside her quote "Whole worlds pivot on acts of imagination."
September 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Illustration of a jagged ambush bug (Phymata americana) 🪲
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#scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #bug #autumn
September 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Who doesnt love hanging out in a cemetery during spooky season?! Do some field sketching of how all the earth is dying back in beautiful ways
lindzeamays.bsky.social Lindsay Lindhult, PhD @lindzeamays.bsky.social · Sep 19
Join the Philly Nature Journaling Club on 10/11/25 (10am-12pm) at the Laurel Hill Cemetery!

I will be guest hosting for @megstampede.bsky.social during the spookiest month of the year! (Points if you show up in costume)
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Sign up here (it's free!):
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Image of Laurel Hill Cemetery advertising October's meetup location for Philly nature journaling club.
September 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Join the Philly Nature Journaling Club on 10/11/25 (10am-12pm) at the Laurel Hill Cemetery!

I will be guest hosting for @megstampede.bsky.social during the spookiest month of the year! (Points if you show up in costume)
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Sign up here (it's free!):
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#SciArt 🎨🦋🪲🪳🐡
Image of Laurel Hill Cemetery advertising October's meetup location for Philly nature journaling club.
September 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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These cuddling cuties are ready to journey to their new home!
I adored painting this uniquely personal piece for some lovely iNaturalist hobbyists and fellow nature nerds. 🥹💚🏳️‍🌈

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Smiling artist holds a finished and framed watercolor and gouache painting featuring two cuddling ambush bugs holding a progress pride flag on a purple coneflower.
September 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Cuddling Ambush Bugs on a Purple Coneflower. (2025) Watercolor and gouache. 8x10"

This might be my cutest commission yet. 🏳️‍🌈

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Watercolor and gouache painting of two ambush bugs cuddling on a purple Coneflower while proudly displaying a progress pride flag.
September 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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No students showed up for my afterschool art class today, so we're making the most of it with this pollinating Halictid. 🎨

I have an acute aversion to the color orange (especially living in the US right now 🫠) but the underpainting method has been helping brighten midtones/improve realism.

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Early stages of an acrylic painting of a Halictid bee.
September 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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I am fan-girling the artistry of ‪@lindzeamays.bsky.social‬
lindzeamays.bsky.social Lindsay Lindhult, PhD @lindzeamays.bsky.social · Jun 16
✨New Science Illustration:
Lab assay to observe the behavior of parasitoid, Ganaspis kimorum, when exposed to blueberries infested with spotted-wing Drosophila.

For Rutgers entomologist, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona.

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Digitally illustrated research figure depicting a two-phase experiment where (1) spotted wing Drosophila oviposit eggs into blueberry hosts. (2) Then blueberries are placed in a modified petri dish enclosure with one female Ganaspis kimorum for parasitization and experimental observation.
September 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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✨New Science illustration✨
Synchronized lifecycle of plum curculio and its host plant, blueberry.

1 of 2 illustrated figs for a book chapter commissioned by Rutgers entomologist Dr. Cesar Rodriguez-Saona.

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Illustrated science illustration of a plum curculio weevil lifecycle synchronized with their host plant, blueberry.
September 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A wonderful #InverteFest visitor! Giant Ichneumon Wasp 🌿
A huge, gangly wasp ovipositing in a dead beech tree. Her abdomen is long, and her ovipositor is much longer. It loops from the end of her abdomen over her back, then enters the tree trunk perpendicularly.
August 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Final stretch on this Lepidopteran addition to my "Art of Transition" series.
Will we finish this before my exhibition in September?
Trying my darndest! 💚

#SciArt #bugsky 🎨
Artist LindZeamays uses acrylics to paint a stylized monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.
August 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Never in distress.

Don't let their daintiness fool you. Damselflies are voracious predators just like their Odonate relatives, dragonflies. Mosquitoes beware!

✨Prints available on my website!
✨Always human-made. No AI.

LindZeamays.com

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Digital painting of a Damselfly face looking defiantly at the viewer. Another damselfly flies beside the words "Damsel in Defiance"
August 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Common blue violet. (2025) Watercolor. 8 x 10 in.
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Prints now available! LindZeamays.com/printshop

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Watercolor painting of a common violet flower
August 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Never in distress.

Don't let their daintiness fool you. Damselflies are voracious predators just like their Odonate relatives, dragonflies. Mosquitoes beware!

✨Prints available on my website!
✨Always human-made. No AI.

LindZeamays.com

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Digital painting of a Damselfly face looking defiantly at the viewer. Another damselfly flies beside the words "Damsel in Defiance"
August 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Common blue violet. (2025) Watercolor. 8 x 10 in.
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Prints now available! LindZeamays.com/printshop

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Watercolor painting of a common violet flower
August 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Thought the bugskies might appreciate:
The freezer masoleum where I lay to rest found-dead insect friends while they await pinning & second lives in my collection.

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Old jewelry box repurposed as an insect masoleum. Text says "rest in chitin" All the deceased insects I've found while on midday runs this summer.
August 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The fruits of accomplishment are temporary and contingent on effort, but hope is eternal and costs nothing. Biology favors easy solutions. Your brain wants to be in a perpetual state of hope, so the satisfaction of accomplishment can never last too long. You have to keep moving at all costs.
January 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Entry from yesterday's tranquil @phillynaturejournaling session in the Azalea garden and hosted by @megstampede.bsky.social 🎨💚

Highly recommend plopping down in the middle of a garden and watching the floral visitors for a few hours.

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Nature journaling entry featuring a purple cone flower, wood carder bee, and downy skullcap.
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM