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
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!!
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
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.
Designed this little spider hat for Halloween! Posting pattern on Ravelry tomorrow :)
October 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Designed this little spider hat for Halloween! Posting pattern on Ravelry tomorrow :)
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
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
June 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Found some horseshoe crabs while wearing my horseshoe crab sweater (and flipped them right side up)!
May 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Found some horseshoe crabs while wearing my horseshoe crab sweater (and flipped them right side up)!
One of my semester projects…nearly done and then it’ll get a less obscured photoshoot
May 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
One of my semester projects…nearly done and then it’ll get a less obscured photoshoot
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
hey do you want to test knit my horseshoe crab sweater? if you do, here’s the link!
Look at this great picture of me wearing the horseshoe crab sweater I designed and knit!
April 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Look at this great picture of me wearing the horseshoe crab sweater I designed and knit!
just text and then it’s over, just text and then I can rest.
April 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM
just text and then it’s over, just text and then I can rest.
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
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 🐜❤️ 🧶
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
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!
The ittiest bittiest babyest leafhopper ever watercolored I think
April 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The ittiest bittiest babyest leafhopper ever watercolored I think
@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
@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.
New sweater in the works!
March 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New sweater in the works!
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
Welcome to the singular best thing I’ve ever painted and also why do I stop painting for months at a time??
yelling about science again!
March 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
yelling about science again!
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
Love my departments, marched against monarchy with a bunch of EEB and EIS GRAD students and @joannamasel.bsky.social
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
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
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
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!
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
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 ❤️