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Nicole 🪲
@fossilforager.bsky.social
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Naturalist & illustrator based in California 🌸
Draws bugs & other critters (she/her)

🛒🐛: shop.fossilforager.art
global 🛒🐝: fossilforagershop.etsy.com
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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · Oct 18
Hi everyone! I’m Nicole! I’m an illustrator & designer who is incredibly passionate about ecology and creatures! I love making art and merch for all nature lovers, whether you’re a hobbyist or scientist! 🦋🌱

💼 fossilforager.art
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An illustrated taxonomy poster featuring native bees found in North America, illustrated on a light periwinkle-blue background. The bees are all illustrated in various poses on native wildflowers or according to their species-specific behaviors. From top to bottom, left to right, there is the yellow-faced bumblebee, the orchard mason bee, the blueberry cellophane bee, the common long-horned bee, the western leaf cutter bee, the bumblebee-like digger bee, the bicolored sweat bee, and the eastern carpenter bee. An illustration of a humpback whale skeleton laying on the sea floor, surrounded by pink octopuses, rat-tailed fish, a giant isopod, a grooved tanner cab, and hagfish! They are illustrated on a dark blue background. An illustrated tiled pattern showing 6 species of salamanders and newts native to California arranged on a light blue background. They are mostly earthy brown, orange, yellow, and black. There are water droplets, sorrel, and redwood leaf litter scattered in between the amphibians.
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vireoraptor.bsky.social
roommate got me a bunch of goodies from @fossilforager.bsky.social for Christmas!!!
A collection of various critter enamel pins and stickers. From top left clockwise: whale fall, sea kelp and leopard shark heart, iridescent beetle, gars, mini salmon, mini nudibranch, and a sticker with three nudibranchs that says “nudibranch admirer”.
December 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
fossilforager.bsky.social
I’m currently sick over the holidays, but seeing people’s photos showing off gifted goodies from my shop does help me feel slightly better :’) thank you so much to everyone who supported my art this holiday season ❤️
December 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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authorwinifred.blacksky.app
I made (and ate) an omelet that deserved a modeling contract, and A Santa who decided I was good enough delivered this delightful pin by @fossilforager.bsky.social (OBSESSED)
Enamel pin of sea creatures at the all you can eat whale carcass buffet.
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
Celebrate Fungal Biodiversity! 🍄
An illustration of various colorful mushrooms and fungi arranged in a circle. Beige-colored text wrapped around it reads “Celebrate Fungal Biodiversity”. They are illustrated on an earthy matcha green background.
December 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
fossilforager.bsky.social
I am starting to get sick right before Christmas (which is somewhat of a nuisance), but I am admittedly more annoyed about the fact that I have a mushroom foraging class booked this weekend and will be very upset if I can’t go 😭
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
fossilforager.bsky.social
Celebrate Fungal Biodiversity! 🍄
An illustration of various colorful mushrooms and fungi arranged in a circle. Beige-colored text wrapped around it reads “Celebrate Fungal Biodiversity”. They are illustrated on an earthy matcha green background.
December 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
fossilforager.bsky.social
so I think the guy who wrote “My Favorite Things” wrote it to spread winter superiority propaganda. because why is the song in a musical that’s set in the summer
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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zabe8.bsky.social
I saw this pin from @fossilforager.bsky.social earlier this year and sent a link to my bestie. My bday was on 12/8 and I got my pin from her!
It's perfect and lovely and I couldn't be happier. 🥰
A jewelry pin of a whale carcass (deadfall) in tan tones crawling with octopus and hagfish and eels.
December 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
new beanies now available in the shop!! 🥳🪲💕

Check them out here! shop.fossilforager.art
A photo showcasing 4 new acrylic beanie designs. Top row, left to right: acorn weevil embroidered on light brown, stag beetle embroidered on green. Bottom row: pacific tree frog + tadpole + egg embroidered on blue green, golden chanterelle fungi embroidered on turmeric beanie. They are photographed on mossy gray brick.
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
Hi everyone! I’m Nicole! I’m an illustrator & designer who is incredibly passionate about ecology and creatures! I love making art and merch for all nature lovers, whether you’re a hobbyist or scientist! 🦋🌱

💼 fossilforager.art
🛒 shop.fossilforager.art
An illustrated taxonomy poster featuring native bees found in North America, illustrated on a light periwinkle-blue background. The bees are all illustrated in various poses on native wildflowers or according to their species-specific behaviors. From top to bottom, left to right, there is the yellow-faced bumblebee, the orchard mason bee, the blueberry cellophane bee, the common long-horned bee, the western leaf cutter bee, the bumblebee-like digger bee, the bicolored sweat bee, and the eastern carpenter bee. An illustration of a humpback whale skeleton laying on the sea floor, surrounded by pink octopuses, rat-tailed fish, a giant isopod, a grooved tanner cab, and hagfish! They are illustrated on a dark blue background. An illustrated tiled pattern showing 6 species of salamanders and newts native to California arranged on a light blue background. They are mostly earthy brown, orange, yellow, and black. There are water droplets, sorrel, and redwood leaf litter scattered in between the amphibians.
October 18, 2024 at 6:37 PM
fossilforager.bsky.social
I think part of the reason social media is exhausting is that you have 17 year olds talking about celebrities in their 30s “aging like a fine wine”. like girl come on that is not even old 😭
December 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
new beanies now available in the shop!! 🥳🪲💕

Check them out here! shop.fossilforager.art
A photo showcasing 4 new acrylic beanie designs. Top row, left to right: acorn weevil embroidered on light brown, stag beetle embroidered on green. Bottom row: pacific tree frog + tadpole + egg embroidered on blue green, golden chanterelle fungi embroidered on turmeric beanie. They are photographed on mossy gray brick.
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Thanks, Past Me! :D

Check out my sweet Whalefall enamel pin from @fossilforager.bsky.social that just arrived!
A beautiful enamel pin depicting assorted ocean creatures (cephalopods, isopods, crustaceans...) feasting on a fallen whale skeleton. It is pinned diagonally (because it's long) to a card with rounded edges - white, with black font that says FOSSIL FORAGER. Behind it is a business card Nicole Parra Illustration & design www.fossilforager.art @fossilforager
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
I'm pretty pleased with my ingenuity getting my new patches from @rachelquinlan.bsky.social on my bag using a hair iron. My backpack is full of bsky friends, sea scene pin is from @aspenhearted.bsky.social, squid sticker from @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social, whalefall pin from @fossilforager.bsky.social
A dark green backpack with a large patch featuring a moth in an ornate book alongside Snufkin and Totoro pins, above a sea scene pin with anemone and nudibranch, and a whalefall pin at the top, among other assorted flare The side pocket with a dragon made out of plants with a water bottle featuring a sticker of a squid
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
Last few hours to shop the sale!!! Thank you all so much for your support ❤️
fossilforager.bsky.social Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · Nov 28
Still need to shop gifts for the nature lovers in your life? I got you!
🐝 Save 15% off all orders from my site with code BIODIVERSITY - ends Nov 30th!

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(reshares mega appreciated, thank you all sm for the support this holiday season ❤️)
[ #merch #nightmarket #sciart ]
A photo spread of various colorful sticker sheets, stickers, and iron-on patches themed around nature and the redwood forest. A photo of kelp forest and tide pool themed stickers and patches photographed on a sandy beach. They feature sea slugs, a sea otter, a leopard shark, and other marine critters. A photograph of a large enamel pin featuring a whale fall and marine critters!
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
Whale fall pins are now back in stock, just in time for the holidays!! The perfect gift for deep sea lovers & marine biology fans 🐋🦀

Check them out here! shop.fossilforager.art
photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
fossilforager.bsky.social
Still need to shop gifts for the nature lovers in your life? I got you!
🐝 Save 15% off all orders from my site with code BIODIVERSITY - ends Nov 30th!

🛒🐛 shop.fossilforager.art

(reshares mega appreciated, thank you all sm for the support this holiday season ❤️)
[ #merch #nightmarket #sciart ]
A photo spread of various colorful sticker sheets, stickers, and iron-on patches themed around nature and the redwood forest. A photo of kelp forest and tide pool themed stickers and patches photographed on a sandy beach. They feature sea slugs, a sea otter, a leopard shark, and other marine critters. A photograph of a large enamel pin featuring a whale fall and marine critters!
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
New beanies are now available to preorder on my site! These will keep you cozy all winter long 🌲❤️

🍂 shop.fossilforager.art
A mockup image of a Prussian blue beanie with an embroidered pacific chorus frog egg, tadpole, and adult! The frog is green with a white belly and black markings around the eye and belly. A mockup of a brown beanie with an embroidered warm brown acorn weevil! A moss green beanie with an embroidered black stag beetle! A turmeric colored beanie with embroidered golden chanterelle mushrooms!
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
fossilforager.bsky.social
New beanies are now available to preorder on my site! These will keep you cozy all winter long 🌲❤️

🍂 shop.fossilforager.art
A mockup image of a Prussian blue beanie with an embroidered pacific chorus frog egg, tadpole, and adult! The frog is green with a white belly and black markings around the eye and belly. A mockup of a brown beanie with an embroidered warm brown acorn weevil! A moss green beanie with an embroidered black stag beetle! A turmeric colored beanie with embroidered golden chanterelle mushrooms!
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
please check out my new isopod stickers :)
A photo of a vibrant orange illustrated sticker sheet featuring colorful isopods doing isopod things (eating a piece of fruit, hiding under a leaf, resting on top of a leaf, crawling around). To the right of the sticker sheet are some of the isopod stickers stuck onto a white sheet.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
please check out my new isopod stickers :)
A photo of a vibrant orange illustrated sticker sheet featuring colorful isopods doing isopod things (eating a piece of fruit, hiding under a leaf, resting on top of a leaf, crawling around). To the right of the sticker sheet are some of the isopod stickers stuck onto a white sheet.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
omg I got into emerald city comic con, who am I seeing in Seattle in March?? 👀
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
fossilforager.bsky.social
had a wonderful time at EntSoc’s annual meeting this year, thank you all so much for stopping by my booth and for the kind words!!! I have so many ideas for art I want to make next year 🥹🪲❤️
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social
The entomology pinbadge energy is strong at #EntSoc25. I bought this lovely Carolina Mantis badge by Roving House at the BioQuipBugs / @pinitentomology.bsky.social stand, and this superb Orchid Mantis badge by @fossilforager.bsky.social at the Fossil Forager stand.
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
fossilforager.bsky.social
I’m here at EntSoc’s annual meeting in Portland!! Come say hi/grab some goodies if you’re here, we’re running low on a few items and sold out of some pins already!! 🪰🦋💕 #entsoc25
A photo of my set up at EntSoc’s annual meeting, a conference for entomologists. My art prints, stickers, pins, and more goods are arranged on a golden table cloth in various acrylic and wooden shelf displays.
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM