Meredith Willmott
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leafhopper.bsky.social
Meredith Willmott
@leafhopper.bsky.social
Ph.D student in Ecology&Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Mutualism between ants and auchenorrhyncha, ecophysiology, indirect effects. Science communicator!
Will be handing out stickers at the @entsocamerica.bsky.social meeting! Come find me or Solomon Hendrix and you will get one of our respective hopper stickers!!
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
We dressed up as r and k selection for Halloween. Something you can do if the party you’re going to is the EEB grad party.
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Designed this little spider hat for Halloween! Posting pattern on Ravelry tomorrow :)
October 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya

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June 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Self portrait
June 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Found some horseshoe crabs while wearing my horseshoe crab sweater (and flipped them right side up)!
May 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Cicadigan
May 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
One of my semester projects…nearly done and then it’ll get a less obscured photoshoot
May 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
hey do you want to test knit my horseshoe crab sweater? if you do, here’s the link!
April 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
YEEEEAAAAHHHHH
April 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Look at this great picture of me wearing the horseshoe crab sweater I designed and knit!
April 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
just text and then it’s over, just text and then I can rest.
April 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Time for another testing call!!! Link is pasted in the post below this one, super excited to get more bug patterns (and ant facts) out into the world 🐜❤️ 🧶
April 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Locked in yesterday and finished the painting part of my leafhopper comic. Next…to outline these all in ink, and then add lots of text in illustrator! I managed to ruin my big guy on the left with wet hair but luckily I’d already scanned him in!
April 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The ittiest bittiest babyest leafhopper ever watercolored I think
April 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
@entsocamerica.bsky.social using AI generated images in its award presentations at the Eastern Branch is really, really embarrassing, especially for a society that focuses on scicomm and science illustration through conference workshops. Really making me reconsider renewing my membership this year.
March 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
New sweater in the works!
March 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
March 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Welcome to the singular best thing I’ve ever painted and also why do I stop painting for months at a time??
March 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
hop? hop. hop!
March 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
yelling about science again!
March 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Love my departments, marched against monarchy with a bunch of EEB and EIS GRAD students and @joannamasel.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
one of these shirts is for a faculty member of my department! get out there!!!! fight for your science! and for my science please I would like very much for there to be science when I finish my doctorate
March 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Designed a sweater based around the iconic arthropods of the Sonoran desert. Test calls for the Desert Dweller Sweater (swoncho?) will be out in mid Feb!
January 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
it’s nice to do something that AI can’t. if you’re feeling hopeless moving into the new year, pick up a hobby that has you working with your hands ❤️
December 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM