Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian#lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵 #printmaking#womenInSTEM#histstm
Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, "I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars produced beautiful butterflies or moths, and that silkworms did the same. This led me to collect all the caterpillars I could find in order to see how they changed".
🧵1/n #printmaking#sciArt#MastoArt#histsci
Do we have any #Danish speaking natural #science enthusiasts in the hus? I'm looking for help identifying which term in this sentence (from #entomologist J.C. Schiodte) could have been translated by "accommodation," as well as what a more direct translation of said Danish term would be.
Please boost if you have Danish contacts. Tak allesammen! 🙂
Any #entomologists or #entomology folks can help me pseudo-ID a bug?
I saw it come into the bathroom from under the baseboards, there's a small gap area.
Dark colour, possibly 1cm size, small "but a large small", moved fast. It came in, stopped, and went RIGHT back into the same hole.
Now I'm fearing it's bedbugs but that seems unlikely, I've been in this place a few months now... But what could it have been?? Didn't seem like a cockroach ...
Thanks! #bug#bugs#bugid#entomologist#insect
“When someone says, ‘hey, look at this weird #bug!’ they’re usually referring to an insect… you know, a six-legged exoskeleton-clad creature that has at least one pair of wings at some point in its life. To an #entomologist, someone who studies #insects," #bugs mean something a little different... Learn more with this #MinuteEarth#video.