Patrick Lynch

A small oil painting of a natural beach area along the coastline near Milford, Connecticut, USA.

Milford Point. Oil sketch, 8 x 10 in.

Colored pencil drawing of a male Harlequin duck in a resting pose.

Harlequin drake (Histrionicus histrionicus). Pencils on gray board, ~ 8 x 10 in.
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #harlequin #ducks

Raindrops on grass leaves.

Good morning.

Yep.

A complex page spread diagram showing the life cycle of typical dragonfly species, from mating and egg-laying, through the aquatic nymph stages through to adulthood.

The life cycle of #dragonflies. From my forthcoming book "PONDS: An illustrated Guide," Yale University Press, 2026. a.co/d/1dl1IFn
🧪🐡🌿🌎 #scicomm #diagrams #infographics #Graphics #VisualJournalism #DataVisualization #Infographics #VisualStorytelling #VisualCommunication #ponds #lakes #freshwater

Complex page spread diagram illustrating various fish, insects, and birds that inhabit the surface zone of ponds. The diagram also illustrates the chemical-physical principles that create surface tension in bodies of water.

The neuston (surface) zone of ponds. From my forthcoming book "PONDS: An illustrated Guide," Yale University Press, 2026. a.co/d/1dl1IFn
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #scicomm #diagrams #infographics #VisualJournalism #DataVisualization #Infographics #VisualStorytelling #VisualCommunication #ponds #lakes #freshwater

Close photo of a small bee perched on the center of a bright yellow Black-eyed Susan sunflower.

Good morning. Ligated Furrow Bee (Halictus ligatus) on Rudbeckia. North Haven, CT, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insects #bees #Apidae #macro #insects #flowers #InsectApocalyse

Thank you!

Diagram of a broad landscape with a large lake and wooded hillsides, showing how fresh water cycles through both the atmosphere and lun-off from land and groundwater, powered by gravity and solar energy.

The freshwater cycle in lakes and ponds. From my forthcoming book "PONDS: An illustrated Guide," Yale University Press, 2026. a.co/d/1dl1IFn
🧪🐡🌿🌎 #scicomm #diagrams #infographics #VisualJournalism #DataVisualization #ponds #VisualStorytelling #VisualCommunication #freshwater #WaterCycle #water

Colored pencil drawing on warm gray paper, of a flying Barn Owl near to landing on a perch.

Barn Owl (Tyto alba) in flight. Colored pencils on Canson paper, ~8 x 10 in.
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #scicomm #owl #owls #infographics #BarnOwl #VisualJournalism #birds #Ornithology #ColoredPencil #Canson #VisualStorytelling #VisualCommunication

Close photo of red coneflowers in a garden.

Good morning.

Small oil sketch of the Meigs Point glacial moraine, along the shoreline of Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison, Connecticut, USA.

Meigs Point sketch, 7 x 12 in., oil on board. 🐡

My illustration of a Belted Kingfisher female in flight. Done in Photoshop with a Wacom drawing tablet.

Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon). From my forthcoming book "PONDS: An illustrated Guide," Yale University Press, 2026. a.co/d/1dl1IFn
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #scicomm #diagrams #infographics #Graphics #VisualJournalism #DataVisualization #Infographics #VisualStorytelling #VisualCommunication #kingfisher

A diagram showing the typical sequence of plant species found around ponds and smaller lakes of the eastern U.S.

Zonation around pond edges in the eastern U.S. From my forthcoming book "PONDS: An illustrated Guide," Yale University Press, 2026. a.co/d/1dl1IFn
🧪🌿🌎 #scicomm #diagrams #infographics #Graphics #VisualJournalism #DataVisualization #Infographics #VisualStorytelling #ecology #VisualCommunication

Pocosins are the southern equivalent of bogs, found mostly in the coastal Carolinas of the U.S.: highly acidic freshwater environments, harboring unique species like Venus Flytraps, Sundews, and the Yellow Pitcher Plant.

Pocosin environments of the U.S. Carolinas. From my forthcoming book "PONDS: An illustrated Guide," Yale University Press, 2026. a.co/d/1dl1IFn
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #scicomm #diagrams #infographics #Graphics #VisualJournalism #DataVisualization #Infographics #VisualStorytelling #VisualCommunication #pocosins

American Lady butterfly sitting on a Black-eyed Susan flower.

The only kind of pumpkin-spice I like...

A complex, multi-layered diagram illustrating the multiple layers of the food webs and the nutrient cycles in freshwater ponds of the eastern United States.

The freshwater food web in ponds. From my forthcoming book "PONDS: An illustrated Guide," Yale University Press, 2026.
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🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #scicomm #diagrams #infographics #Graphics #VisualJournalism #DataVisualization #Infographics #VisualStorytelling #InformationDesign #VisualCommunication

Close 3-exposure photo of a bumblebee taking off from a red coneflower.

Lift-off! Common Eastern Bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) and coneflower.
🧪🌿🌎 #garden #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insects #bees

A book page spread on the unique acid-dominated pocosin ponds and swamps of North Carolina and South Carolina, USA. In addition to temperate-climate specialists like Venus Flytraps and Yellow Pitcher plants, the dense and barely-accessible pocosin are the last refuge of the severely-endangered Red Wolf of the Carolina coastal plains.

A page spread on the unique pocosin ponds of the U.S. Carolinas. From my book PONDS: An Illustrated Guide, Yale University Press, ~Jan 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #pocosins #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #pocosin #freshwater #RedWolf

Four-part diagram on how ponds in the eastern U.S. evolve, from open water, to emergent marsh, and later to shrub swamps and tree-dominated swamps.

Succession and evolution in a pond environment. From my forthcoming book PONDS: An Illustrated Guide, Yale University Press, ~January 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #succession #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ponds #freshwater #ecology

Close photo of a Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) just about to land on the center of a pink Coneflower.

Clear for landing...
Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) on Coneflower. North Haven, CT, USA.

We can’t let this happen.

And any Republican who refuses to renew health care subsidies for hardworking American families, saying we can’t afford it, needs to explain how they found $1 trillion in tax cuts to give away to the wealthiest people in America.

Facing a Hostile Administration, U.S. Offshore Wind Is in Retreat Offshore wind had been poised to take off along the East Coast, with about 30 utility-scale farms planned. But the Trump administration’s opposition to wind power has caused most of those projects to ...

This makes perfect sense. We've never needed cheap, clean energy more...

Close photo of a tiny, bright green bee on the center of a coneflower.

Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens) on coneflower. North Haven, CT, USA, June 29.
🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #sciphotography #sciphoto #scientificillustration #naturephoto #naturephotography #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #insects #bees #SweatBees

A detailed side-view illustration of a black and yellow tropical fish. Done in Photoshop using a Wacom drawing tablet.

Rock Beauty (Holocanthus tricolor), of the western Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, and U.S. southeastern coast from the Florida Keys north to South Carolina.
🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #MedicalIllustration #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm

Page spread illustration of four colorful tropical fish species of the Florida Keys: Rock Beauty, Queen Triggerfish, Queen Angelfish, and the Four-eye Butterflyfish.

Queens of the Reef. Favorite fish from the Florida Key's endangered offshore coral reefs. For a new potential project...
🧪🐡🌿🌎 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm

My very close photo of a Western or European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) on a coneflower (Echinacea sp.). Canon R5, 100mm macro, Cygnustech Diffuser with a Godox V100-C flash.

Good morning, Honey. 🧪🌿🌎🐡

Essay | This Fall, Let’s Stop Fighting the War on Leaves Fallen leaves aren’t waste—they’re a valuable resource and a reminder of mortality.

Nice piece in reliably excellent @WSJ weekend Review section. This one by @alexnazaryan.bsky.social about declaring an armistice in the War on Leaves.

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/th...

Meigs Point, Hammonasset Beach State Park. The Point is a mile-long recessional moraine along the Connecticut coast. About 18,000 years ago, the retreating Wisconsinan Ice Sheet paused here for some hundreds of years, depositing the long line of glacial boulders and erratics you see here. The moraine extends across Clinton Harbor and re-emerges on the eastern shore of the harbor.

It doesn't get much better than Meigs Point on a gorgeous autumn day. Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison, CT, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #GlacialGeology #Moraines #RecessionalMoraines #Glaciers #IceAge #Connecticut

Photo of an early coneflower, showing the distinct spiraling pattern of its central cone area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence

Buongiorno, dottor Fibonacci.