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18th Century illustration of Cotacachi. The town was founded in 1544 by Friar Pedro de la Peña. He was a Dominican priest who later became a Bishop of Quito.

So what does Cotacachi mean? According to some, it's a reference to the town's once-thriving salt market.

You know - I've considered. But I use a lot of images not under creative commons and also - I like having presentations that are special for my tours. That people can't find on the internet. I think it makes it something special for them.

A tarot card. The text reads "12. hanged Man" A large tan spider with big blue eyes and spindly legs holds a rectangular cluster of web pointed at the viewer.

Working on finishing up the major arcana by the end of the year! Only two left after this one =D The Hanged Man - and the spider that regrows its retinas back each night 0.o

Here's the explainer video about this half male half female insect

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a creame colored slide with dark teal outlines of butterflies and moths on the top and bottom. the text reads "justice for moths. de-influencing butterflies"

The second slide with the same framing and background as the first. The poem reads "A riddle to guess if you can. What makes a Butterfly? What makes a moth? Can you separate them by clan"

Working on a presentation for my upcoming tour focused on butterflies.

Me too. I saw a pink katydid once so I believe that there's still luck for me too find one

A tarot card reading 14 temperance. The background is a rainbow gradient starting with rid on the left and a teal color on the left. paint splashes of yellow red and teal are on it, In the middle is a spiny leaf insect called the Malaysian jungle nymph. the right side has the brown coloration and wings of the male, the right side has the green coloration and vestigial wings of the female.

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.

We have our problem streets too but yeah this one does look pretty good =) it's near a park.

Come visit! Haha he'll be here in like 2 days lol

Shot of a city street in Quito. A blue buss passes. The sky is blue. You can see the volcano pichincha in the background

This morning it was like 80 and warm on my walk to my nail appointment

Shot of a city street in Quito. A blue buss passes. The sky is blue. You can see the volcano pichincha in the background

This morning it was like 80 and warm on my walk to my nail appointment

A hand holding a ball of hail with a whole patio covered white in hail

Today on the equator

A man in front of a TV showing various clay figurines and a velvet ant.

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...

A clay figure of a person with facial disbursement including lesions all ober the face. The text reads Representaciones idrectas Leshmaniasis - protozoos leishmania -bahia Vector insectos mosca de la arena (flebótomo)

And here a clay figure thought to represent Leshmaniasis

A clay shaman with a shell on his forehead and two butterflies on either side of his head. The text reads "Mariposas Jama Coaque"

Here, another piece from an Ecuadorian coatal culture shows a shaman with a fetching butterfly barette.

Slide showing a clay representation of a moth pupa, a real moth pupa, and a brown moth with its wings spread. Title reads Noctuidae Spodoptera

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

A picture of an artifact. Its a solid gold butterfly. The text reads "Mariposa [butterfly] La Tolita [an Ecuadorian preincan culture]

Went to a presentation today showcasing insect iconography in Ecuador's precolombian and preincan cultures!

Presented by Sebasian Padron a great entomologist in Cuenca

I hope this is how I go out

Thank you =)

Here's the Process Video and me spittin' Scorpion facts.
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Emerald Cockroach Wasp (Ampulex compressa) adult female, emerging from dead body of American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana) after it fed upon it as larva and pupated inside, South Asia, Africa and Pacific Islands (controlled conditions) Photographer Emanuele Biggi Species Emerald Cockroach Wasp Ampulex compressa

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

A dynamic painting of a scorpion. Half is blue - glowing under uv light with a black background. Half is the yellow color of the true scorpion on a red background

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

Now writing up a genus with about 70ish wasps ever caught. That's the total for planet Earth during 200 years of collecting. Every single one of them a female.

I guess the males likely exist? Somewhere?

Beautiful, spooky wings of the "Halloween Pennant" dragonfly (Celithemis eponina) 🎃

seen near water - June, July - NE OK

Time is money as they say

A blue-pink giant flower beetle mecynorrhina ugandesis with cream stripes. It sits atop orange and red flowers.

The last of the giant flower beetle saga...

Mecynorrhina Ugandesis

The very first one I ever reared, although they were a black-orange variant. I think the blue-pink is so iconic on them though

#inverts #SciArt 💜🪲

Revision of the millipede genus Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921 (Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae, Apheloriini) | Zootaxa

Millipede fans rejoice: we published our revision of Apheloria! This is the most common cherry millipede genus, but its taxonomy has been riddled with nebulous subspecies names. No longer! We clarify species limits and provide a distribution map. mapress.com/zt/article/v... @apheloria.bsky.social

Pigeon love!! ^.^