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Our 1st ever Monarch larva pupated 😍; here’s my Perpetual Journal art of it & Sonoran Desert wildflowers from ‘25, ‘24 & ‘23! Read more on my latest blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/butterfly-excitement-part-2

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #ecosystem #nature #climate #wildflower #BloomScrolling #Cactus #insect #arthropod #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis #Monarch

My 2025 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Monarch Butterfly pupa (chrysalis) and Globe Mallow in bloom; my 2024 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Hedgehog Cactus in bloom; & my 2023 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of 2 varieties of Brittlebush in bloom (one with yellow disc florets & the other with brown disc florets), all in Tucson, AZ.

📰 "IbinA and IbinB regulate the Toll pathway-mediated immune response in Drosophila melanogaster"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.648149v1?rss=1
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
#Drosophila #Immunity #Toll
#Pupa

In my latest blog post/email newsletter I continued my All About Birds mini-series. Here’s Part 3 featuring my natural history art & info:

https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/all-about-birds-part-3

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #environment #ecosystem #nature #outdoors #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #Cardinal #Bluebird #LesserGoldfinch #Goldfinch #arthropod #butterfly #larva #caterpillar #pupa #chrysalis

My watercolor art of a Lesser Goldfinch, with text overlaid that reads "All About Birds, Part 3 - Northern Cardinals, Lesser Goldfinches & Western Bluebirds" - paulaborchardt.substack.com

Caterpillar turning into a pupa.
#photography #chrysalis #pupa #caterpillar #larva #VisualDescription

The image is in vertical orientation. There's a caterpillar, a straw roof, a bit of wood and blurry background. The caterpillar is in the center of the image. It's hanging by its tail from a straw roof. It's facing to the left. It has sharp spiky looking extrusions coming out of its back and lots of small white hair all around its body. Its legs are to the left. 4 pairs of soft squiggly legs are visible. Two pairs of sharp bug legs are below the softer looking ones. The legs are orange. Most of its body is black. The left side of the straw roof is closer to the camera than the right side. The right side of the straw roof ends with a piece of wood, which is also a part of the roof. Both the straw and the wood look slightly weathered by age. The straw is orange, the wood is gray. There's something green at the bottom of the image, but its too blurry to make out. The image has strong focus, causing everything other than the caterpillar to be blurry.

The image is in vertical orientation. It's roughly the same spot as the previous image, but taken one day later. The camera angle isn't quite as sharp as before. The caterpillar has been replaced with a pupa. The pupa has sharp spikes on its back side. Its gray with a slight brown tint to it. The ends of the spikes are black. The blurry green thing from the previous image is slightly less blurry and can be identified. There's a window with green curtains at the bottom right corner of the image. There's a bit of blurry green light at the bottom left corner of the image. There's a bit of log wall visible at the bottom edge of the image. The logs have a slightly blueish tint to them.

📰 "Intraguild parasitism promotes the persistence of facultative hyperparasitoids by extending temporal host availability"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.640037v1?rss=1
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
#Drosophila #Adult
#Larva #Pupa

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Velvet Moonwing - Lunaria velutina

#butterfly #moth #Lepidoptera #larva #caterpillar
#insect #chrysalis #metamorphosis #pupa
#hesperiidae #imago #pollination
#papilionoidea #mimicry #nectar
#crepuscular #lycaenidae #antenna
#nymphalidae #iridescence

Crystallight Tiger - Tigris crystallis

#butterfly #moth #Lepidoptera #larva #caterpillar
#insect #chrysalis #metamorphosis #pupa
#hesperiidae #imago #pollination
#papilionoidea #mimicry #nectar
#crepuscular #lycaenidae #antenna
#nymphalidae #iridescence

📰 "Protocol for dissecting Drosophila pupae and visualizing RNA expression using hybridization chain reaction"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39576730/ #Drosophila #Larva #Pupa

📰 "Temporal variability in host availability alters the outcome of competition between two parasitoid species"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39323061/ #Drosophila #Pupa

SciArtSeptember Day 8 “Chrysalis”: my art on 4 of my Perpetual Journal pages of a Cloudless Sulphur chrysalis & 3 Queen Butterfly chrysalises, Tucson, AZ.

#SciArtSeptember #SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #nature #caterpillar #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #larva #pupa #chrysalis #NativePlants #wildflower

My 2023 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Queen Butterfly larva on milkweed; and the annular solar eclipse; and my 2022 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Cloudless Sulphur butterfly emerging from its chrysalis

My 2024 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Queen Butterfly white chrysalis and my 2023 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of Blue Palo Verde seedpods

My 2024 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Queen Butterfly caterpillar & chrysalis and my 2023 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of green, perky Brittlebush leaves

My 2024 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Queen Butterfly transparent chrysalis and the butterfly that emerged; and my 2023 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Mexican Poppy popping its top (calyptra)

SciArtSeptember Day 8 “Chrysalis”: my Perpetual Journal art: a Sleepy Orange chrysalis & butterfly, Tucson AZ. I saw the larva pupate AND eclose as a butterfly! 😍

#SciArtSeptember #SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #nature #cactus #Saguaro #insect #arthropod #entomology #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #woodpecker

My 2024 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Sleepy Orange Butterfly and its chrysalis and my 2023 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Gila Woodpecker peeking out a hole in a Saguaro.

Safely out of my jammies, now have to hang around for a few weeks like this...

#caterpillar #invertefest #cocoon #pupa #insect #sciart #mastoart #art

A big fat monarch butterfly caterpillar cocoon. It is hard, shiny, and ridged, colored in seafoam green. It has a little black stem at the top and the wings are clearly visible against the shell. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art.

Tiger butterfly pupa.
#awesome_nature #awesome_naturepics #Blackside #butterfly #CloseUp #Fence #FocusOnForeground #Green #Nature #OneAnimal #pupa #Snap_allnature #Snap_butterflies #Snap_community #Snap_insects #Snap_macro #ThARTsday #tigerbutterfly

Bambolina #verotography #podium #pictas #snap #fotomasters #masterpix #flipboard #flipboardUserGroup #fediart #fediphotos #leicacamera #toys #pupa #doll

Bambolina

#verotography #podium #pictas #snap #fotomasters #masterpix #flipboard #flipboardUserGroup #fediart #fediphotos #leicacamera #toys #pupa #doll

Bambolina #verotography #podium #pictas #snap #fotomasters #masterpix #flipboard #flipboardUserGroup #fediart #fediphotos #leicacamera #toys #pupa #doll

Pubblicato su salvomic Photography @salvomic-photography-salvomic

📰 "Axonal self-sorting without target guidance in Drosophila visual map formation"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38452066/ #Drosophila #Pupa

We watched 2(!) Queen Butterflies emerge from their chrysalises recently! 😍Here’s my Perpetual Journal art showing this. You can read more & see photos on my latest blog post:

https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/its-a-girl-go-girl-and-its-a-boy

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #blogging #Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #nature #insect #arthropod #entomology #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #pupa #chrysalis #NativePlants #wildflower #poppy

My 2024 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Queen Butterfly's transparent chrysalis in which you can see the wings, plus the Queen Butterfly recently emerged from the chrysalis and my 2023 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Mexican poppy popping its top (calyptra).

I recently created a time-lapse video of a Queen Butterfly caterpillar turning into a chrysalis in our Tucson, AZ, USA yard! What an amazing miracle of nature! 🤩

https://youtu.be/b3FrmDOi1Fk

#Tucson #SonoranDesert #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #outdoors #insect #arthropod #entomology #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #larva #caterpillar #pupa #chrysalis #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #timelapse

I recently saw 2 Queen Butterfly caterpillars turn into chrysalises! SO C👀L!
🤩 Here's my Perpetual Journal art showing the before & after of this amazing event + my 2023 PJ art of Brittlebush.

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #Brittlebush #insect #arthropod #entomology #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #larva #caterpillar #pupa #chrysalis

#Pupa

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