Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· 17d

Stop! Hammer fly time! El Septimo Paraíso, Mindo, Ecuador

An orange fly with a wide head. If a hammerhead shark were a fly this would be it.

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· 26d

Hi. Im a bird photographer now. Golden tailed sapphire ☆ Wild Sumaco Ecolodge

A stunning hummingbird with his copper tail feathers spread. His head is blue and his back is green.

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· 27d

Best bug color pallet ever! It's one of the few katydids that's actually toxic so these wild colors give predators a warning. #Moncheca elegans ☆ Wild Sumaco Ecolodge #katydid #purplebug #Ecuador #cloudforesr

A large katydid with a purple head, purple legs, yellow toes, and black wings

Closeup of the katydid with its purple head

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 30

Im bummed I couldn't get a better picture of this but it was dark and this creature was really small. This! Is a pseudoscorpion (the black clawed thing) that has grabbed onto a weevil leg and is being toted around and is using the weevil like a bus.

A weevil with a long nose. Its carrying around a small.clawed creature that is gripping onto its leg. Its a paeudoscorpion. Basically it looks like a tiny scorpion without the tail

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 26

What's the weather like up at 13,000 ft?

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 23

Here is the millipede in all its glory Mindo Ecuador

A red and black millipede with yellow legs curled into a ball.

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 23

A reminder that #EarthDay means appreciating all of earth and its inhabitants

A woman with slate blue hair in a bangs style with transparent glasses and a big and bright red millipede on her nose

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 20

A zen moment - forest light passing through a reed

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 18

This frog and I feel the same about the state of the world. EL Refugio, Intag, Ecuador

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 17

Who's gonna tell him his mimicry is ... kinda off ...? Hawk moth El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador

Front part of a hawk moth caterpillar. Looks like he has two turqoise googly eyes.

Hawk moth caterpillar. He's a super pastel green color with two turqoise googly eye looking spots near hua head and a orange cheeto for a horn tail

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 16

Here's the scene in my nature journal

Graphic novel little coming showing the Zygothrica flies done in watercolor.

First frame a few loosely drawn flies with a quote bubble "GET OFF MY FUNGUS! THERE'S NOT "MUSHROOM" FOR YOU!"

2nd panel is a closeup of the fly with triangle eyes with a black box behind him. It says "*STARE*"

The third panel is loosely drawn. A female fly is shown thinking "Fight! FIGHT!" A couple of males are shown headbutting with a large POW and BAM callout on top a la Old batman comic style

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 15

Here they are (Zygothrica sp) going at it to defend their mushroom kingdom. El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 14

Ill take a fistful of moth plz Hawk moth left. Black witch right El refugio, Intag, Ecuador

A hand with a large dark brown moth next to it. The moth is as large as the hand. The hand also has a large graphically patterned hawk moth on it

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 13

Well this has taken off I believe it's the genus Compsus Shot st El Refugio in Intag, Ecuador I do bug tours if you wanna romp around the forest and find your own glitter weevil

A opalescent weevil. Body is a seafood green color with an orange pinky head. Its looking at the camera

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Apr 13

Magic opal glitter weevil. Im always excited to find these!

A picture of a weevil facing forward . A shimmery pale orange head and a creamy seafood colored body

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Mar 8

They fit!

A yellow taxi with 4 weed wackers sticking out of the window

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Feb 3

This toucan is struggling

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Jan 18

And here are my nature journal pages with some of our finds

Nature journal page. Watercolor in a graphic style featuring the Green Jay with his bronelia crown. A copper chrysomelid beetle done in metallic paint. And the toucan choking on a grape.

Nature journal page. Watercolor done in a graphic style.
A male and female masked trogon. A very cool psocoptera we found and a chestnut bellied chat tyrant. Plus a little sketchy diagram of a wren hopping up the lodge stairs

A nature journal page. Done in wafercolor and a graphic style showing a small stick covered in moss, lichens, and a bromelia. The lichens are in their sporing stage. The text reads
"This is a small stick (~8 Inches and pinkie width) that was COVERED in lichens and mosses and had a small bromelia on it. It looked like a coral reef with all the stuff on it!"

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Jan 18

Here is said majestic toucan struggling to get down a grape.

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Jan 17

Here are some cloud forest birds we found at Gaungo Lodge, Ecuador. Gray breasted Mountain Toucan Turqoise Jay Green Jay (sporting a bromelia crow ) Masked Trogon

A colorful toucan with a slate blue body and dark black cap and wings. He's eating a grape. His bill is reddish pink on the end with yellow and blue thick stripes

Turqoise Jay. Arguably royal blue with a pale cap and a black mask.

Green jay posing in front of a red bromelia so it looks like he has a crown.

Yellow belly green with green. A black bib and a blue face with a bright yellow eye. He's a lot to look at especially because his tail is kind of ratty. Looks like he just came out of a rave.

A plump trogon. Dark forest green ba j with a red eyering and bright red belly. Hung around the lodge like he owned the place.

He probably does own the place.

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Dec 20

Justice and the locust swarm. And with that I managed to finish the major arcana by the end of the year! #Stoked Maybe I'll put them all in order in a long thread. Let me know if you'd be interested in that.

a tarot card. The plaque says "11. Justice"
In a stylized gouache painting, many yellow desert locusts swarm the sky and the grass.

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Dec 20

Death and the golden chrysalis. A time of change, transformation, and reflection

A tarot card. The plaque reads '13. Death"
A golden chrysalus is painted on a black background

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Dec 11

When you get the entomologists together at the Monteverde Butterfly Garden

Three women on a large wooden Hercules beetle. Two people have butterfly wings

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Nov 29

Working on finishing up the major arcana by the end of the year! Only two left after this one =D The Hanged Man - and the spider that regrows its retinas back each night 0.o

A tarot card. The text reads "12. hanged Man" A large tan spider with big blue eyes and spindly legs holds a rectangular cluster of web pointed at the viewer.

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Nov 26

Working on a presentation for my upcoming tour focused on butterflies.

a creame colored slide with dark teal outlines of butterflies and moths on the top and bottom. the text reads "justice for moths. de-influencing butterflies"

The second slide with the same framing and background as the first.
The poem reads
"A riddle to guess if you can. What makes a Butterfly? What makes a moth? Can you separate them by clan"

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Nov 23

I'm excited with how Temperance came out! Traditionally depicted as an androgynous angel - here I have a gynandromorph Malaysian Jungle Nymph. That means it's split down the middle - half male half female. I exaggerated its features for the card - but you can find these in real life occasionally.

A tarot card reading 14 temperance. The background is a rainbow gradient starting with rid on the left and a teal color on the left. paint splashes of yellow red and teal are on it, In the middle is a spiny leaf insect called the Malaysian jungle nymph. the right side has the brown coloration and wings of the male, the right side has the green coloration and vestigial wings of the female.

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Nov 21

Come visit! Haha he'll be here in like 2 days lol

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Nov 21

This morning it was like 80 and warm on my walk to my nail appointment

Shot of a city street in Quito. A blue buss passes. The sky is blue. You can see the volcano pichincha in the background

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Nov 21

Today on the equator

A hand holding a ball of hail with a whole patio covered white in hail

Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli@scibugs· Oct 30

The talk was so good and Sebastian is so great. You should check out his website / research if you like bugs and good photography. Nature Photographer and Researcher | Sebastián Padrón share.google/Ortfp3XITDbQ...