Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli
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🦋 A crazy entomologist of sorts who will lead you around Ecuador🇪🇨 to look at bugs and stuff.

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I'm excited with how Temperance came out! Traditionally depicted as an androgynous angel - here I have a gynandromorph Malaysian Jungle Nymph. That means it's split down the middle - half male half female. I exaggerated its features for the card - but you can find these in real life occasionally.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Come visit! Haha he'll be here in like 2 days lol
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This morning it was like 80 and warm on my walk to my nail appointment
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This morning it was like 80 and warm on my walk to my nail appointment
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Today on the equator
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The talk was so good and Sebastian is so great. You should check out his website / research if you like bugs and good photography.

Nature Photographer and Researcher | Sebastián Padrón share.google/Ortfp3XITDbQ...
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
And here a clay figure thought to represent Leshmaniasis
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Here, another piece from an Ecuadorian coatal culture shows a shaman with a fetching butterfly barette.
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The left is a clay representation. Sebastian thinks its of this genus of moth which is typically a pest on Yucca. Something that would be grown a lot. This is from a preincan costal culture
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Went to a presentation today showcasing insect iconography in Ecuador's precolombian and preincan cultures!

Presented by Sebasian Padron a great entomologist in Cuenca
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
this emerald jewel wasp wearing its prey's dead husk of a body like a hat as it newly emerges is the most disparagingly cute thing I think I've ever seen

Photo by Emanuele Biggi
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Painted again after like a month.
Here's the strategic emperor - Scorpions can choose to inject pre venom that just causes pain or deliver the whole cocktail
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Empress!! I was so worried when I started because like ... all the spindly eggs - but where we have a whip scorpion with her noodly babies.
September 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I mean ... maybe humans also have "cooperation among mutually tolerant individuals"
August 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Making progress!! The chariot and the pseudoscorpions that use the harlequin beetle like a literal bus
August 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Excuse me while i chuckle at some memes
August 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I found a pigeon with feather feet!!!!!
August 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
For instance the mindo-nambillo reserve is the work of many people each buying a chunk of land for their own reasons. This creates a mosaic of protected forest that now is about 20,000 hectares (~50,000 acres / 78 square miles). And it connects to other reserves reaching Quito.
August 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What's one thing you wish people understood about conservation?

For me - is that it takes many forms. It's not just putting a fence around d a chunk of land.

Often it requires collaboration but one person or a small org can do more than you think.
August 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Working on a thing!
August 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I've never been tempted to buy a vinyl in my life. I don't even have a player ...

But it's called the shiny bug!! Collection
August 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
These are my favourite trees in Quito. Arupo- native to Ecuador and Peru - looks like something out of the Lorax
August 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
And finally, here's a page from my nature journal I did highlighting all the orange stuff we found.
August 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I may have gotten a little carried away ...
August 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Since Taylor Swift teased TS12 ... I couldn't let the opportunity pass.

So here's a little glimpse into my life around Ecuador
August 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM