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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD
@lindzeamays.bsky.social
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Science Illustrator | Arthropod Artist
"Where no crawly is creepy"
🧬 Research figures, logos, branding, assets
🌽PhD | plant biology, entomology

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Quick ~1 hr colored pencil sketch of a Megarhyssa wasp. The queen of parasitoids. 💚

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Colored pencil sketch of a Megarhyssa parasitoid wasp inserting her ovipositor into the bark of a tree.
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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🌿Life in the Undergrowth🌿
Hand-drawn by me in Procreate.
Now available on merch in my print shop!

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Free US shipping on $30+ w/ coupon code LOVEBUGS30

I appreciate your support for a small time creator. 💚

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Poster advertising a science illustration featuring hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart. Poster advertising prints and stickers of a science illustration with hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart. Poster advertising comfy unisex tees featuring an original science illustration with hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart.
October 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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🌿Life in the Undergrowth🌿
My new spooky autumn design that celebrates the tiny overlooked organisms who live amongst the soil, moss, and mushrooms.

Prints, soft unisex tees, & more at:
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Digital drawing of various undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart.
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The Art of Transition Series: Monarch Butterfly (2025). Acrylic on canvas, 16x20".
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Acrylic painting featuring a monarch butterfly emerging from their chrysalis.
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The Art of Transition Series: Cicada. (2025) Acrylic on canvas, 16x20".
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Acrylic painting featuring a green and yellow cicada emerging from a red and orange molt.
October 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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✨Thirteen✨
Favorite Doctor + favorite Doctor Who Quote.🎨

I adored Jodie Whittaker's portrayal of the Doctor. The bright color palette, creative whimsy, the social awkwardness, caring deeply for her companions despite not always being able to express it. Y'all, I felt seen with this one. 🥹💚
Digital painting of the 13th doctor and TARDIS from the BBC's Doctor Who series alongside her quote "Whole worlds pivot on acts of imagination."
September 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Join the Philly Nature Journaling Club on 10/11/25 (10am-12pm) at the Laurel Hill Cemetery!

I will be guest hosting for @megstampede.bsky.social during the spookiest month of the year! (Points if you show up in costume)
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Sign up here (it's free!):
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Image of Laurel Hill Cemetery advertising October's meetup location for Philly nature journaling club.
September 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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These cuddling cuties are ready to journey to their new home!
I adored painting this uniquely personal piece for some lovely iNaturalist hobbyists and fellow nature nerds. 🥹💚🏳️‍🌈

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Smiling artist holds a finished and framed watercolor and gouache painting featuring two cuddling ambush bugs holding a progress pride flag on a purple coneflower.
September 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Cuddling Ambush Bugs on a Purple Coneflower. (2025) Watercolor and gouache. 8x10"

This might be my cutest commission yet. 🏳️‍🌈

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Watercolor and gouache painting of two ambush bugs cuddling on a purple Coneflower while proudly displaying a progress pride flag.
September 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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No students showed up for my afterschool art class today, so we're making the most of it with this pollinating Halictid. 🎨

I have an acute aversion to the color orange (especially living in the US right now 🫠) but the underpainting method has been helping brighten midtones/improve realism.

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Early stages of an acrylic painting of a Halictid bee.
September 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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The breakdown:

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Prompt given to a science illustrator for a synchronized lifecycle of plum curculio and their host crop, blueberry. Human-illustrated assets for a science illustration featuring different life stages of plum curculio weevil and different fruiting stages of a blueberry stem. Resulting research figure for a book chapter featuring the synchronized lifecycles of plum curculio and blueberry.
September 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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✨New Science illustration✨
Synchronized lifecycle of plum curculio and its host plant, blueberry.

1 of 2 illustrated figs for a book chapter commissioned by Rutgers entomologist Dr. Cesar Rodriguez-Saona.

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Illustrated science illustration of a plum curculio weevil lifecycle synchronized with their host plant, blueberry.
September 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Final stretch on this Lepidopteran addition to my "Art of Transition" series.
Will we finish this before my exhibition in September?
Trying my darndest! 💚

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Artist LindZeamays uses acrylics to paint a stylized monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.
August 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Never in distress.

Don't let their daintiness fool you. Damselflies are voracious predators just like their Odonate relatives, dragonflies. Mosquitoes beware!

✨Prints available on my website!
✨Always human-made. No AI.

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Digital painting of a Damselfly face looking defiantly at the viewer. Another damselfly flies beside the words "Damsel in Defiance"
August 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Common blue violet. (2025) Watercolor. 8 x 10 in.
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Prints now available! LindZeamays.com/printshop

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Watercolor painting of a common violet flower
August 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Thought the bugskies might appreciate:
The freezer masoleum where I lay to rest found-dead insect friends while they await pinning & second lives in my collection.

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Old jewelry box repurposed as an insect masoleum. Text says "rest in chitin" All the deceased insects I've found while on midday runs this summer.
August 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Entry from yesterday's tranquil @phillynaturejournaling session in the Azalea garden and hosted by @megstampede.bsky.social 🎨💚

Highly recommend plopping down in the middle of a garden and watching the floral visitors for a few hours.

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Nature journaling entry featuring a purple cone flower, wood carder bee, and downy skullcap.
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This is how they paint murals, right?

🎨Philly day🎨
Lindzeamays pretends to hold a giant paintbrush sculpture in Center City Philadelphia.
August 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Birthday week highlights!

Never grow out of being an unapologetic bug dork. ✨
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"Feeling cute, might hunt some crickets later" Husband gifted me these incredible digger wasp-like antennae and glasses. Achieved a "snow white" moment with a cicada killer wasp. Striking a pose during a disco tile arcade game. Seeing Rachael and Vilray in the park with husband.
August 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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A tiny flying Hercules beetle stamp carved today for my "Intro to Printmaking for Kids" workshop.

I learned that few elementary-aged kids have the patience to sit and focus on carving even a tiny stamp. Now I'm thinking maybe I was a weird kid. 😆

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Hand carved stamp of a Hercules beetle in flight.
July 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Latest print: A blueberry branch! 🫐

Printing these on wooden bookmarks for my upcoming markets. That totals 4 printed bookmark designs in the collection!

I've made two plant designs in a row, which means an insect will certainly be next on the docket. Maybe a beetle?

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July 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Kinda looks like they fell into a little pond.
July 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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🐝Something a bit different for me - resin art!

There were a few bees leftover from my insect illustration workshop so I used them in this "bio-mandala" suncatcher to commemorate a great day with some totally awesome humans.

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Mandala style resin suncatcher with real preserved honeybees Mandala style suncatcher in a cozy townhome window.
July 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Last night was the first open studio "Ladies Night" where local women get together weekly to create and connect at Por El Arte Makerspace in downtown Mount Holly, NJ.
Gave me an excuse to start my first big bug painting in awhile!

Super grateful to be a part of this blossoming community 💚
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LindZeamays paints a molting cicada while studio co-owner Jeanette crafts jewelry. Acrylic painting of a molting cicada
July 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🦋Monarchs on Milkweed (2025). Watercolor and gouache.

It was an honor to illustrate this naturalist scene as a special birthday gift for a friend. 💚

Prints available at LindZeamays.com/printshop

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Watercolor and gouache painting of "Monarchs on Milkweed". LindZeamays the artist holding the framed 8x10 original painting of Monarchs on Milkweed while sitting in a tree.
July 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM