Invertebrate Stickers

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A marbled orb weaver spider on a grapevine

A rubber ducky isopod happy to have boba tea

A female scorpion is choosy about her lovers because she knows she’s going to devote herself (alone) to mothering the brood until they venture off. It’s a big investment, so she wants a strong male so her little ones will be strong too.

Tarantula

Vector illustration of an insect with a large abdomen.

Heartstopper I Wish I Could Fly - Whether you are looking for Wall Art, Home Decor, Lifestyle Items, Tech Goodies, beautiful Stationery Items, Apparel and so much more, this photograph makes a great gift idea for yourself, a colleague, or a loved one!

Purple-ish mauve sea jellies!

Vector illustration of a religious mantis, green and fascinating.

Cockroach silhouette of geometric shapes.

A color plate illustrating Ascidiacea from Ernst Haeckel’s ‘’Kunstformen der Natur’’ (1899). I have edited this image.

Vector and geometric illustration of a green bug.

Vector and geometric illustration of a green longhorn beetle

More unusual spider species

Roly poly/ isopod name : Armadillidium vulgare (t+ albino, magic potion), Cubaris sp. (rubber ducky, panda king), Armadillidium klugii (Montenegro), Armadillidium nasatum (peach), Armadillidium werneri (orange), Armadillidium maculatum (Zebra) and Armadillidium gestroi

This Queen wasn’t born a princess. She fought, and will keep fighting for her crown until the day she is defeated. She maintains dominance, not like a bee, she does it like a wolf.

Horseshoe crabs are modern trilobites, our invertebrate ancestors. Today, these altruistic, schooling, arthropods (not crustaceans…closer to spiders) are critical to our public health. Drug development relies on testing with their blood, and we’re over-harvesting.

Vector illustration of a beautiful green and exotic bug.

Ocean inhabitants

It’s a worm, and it’s massive!

Jumping spiders are cool for a few reasons. They’ve got excellent vision in 360 degrees, and they need it. They’re active predators, stalking their prey and leaping 30 times their body length (with accuracy!) to make the kill.

Prosopocoilus inclinatus, Grant's stag, Lucanus maculifemoratus, Golden stag, Gigas rhino, Western Hercules, Dorcus hopei binodulosus, homoderus mellyi Hercules, Dorcus titanus, Japanese rhino, prosopocoilus savagei, Atlas rhino, Eastern Hercules, Caucasus rhino

Vector and geometric illustration of an insect that loves plane trees and pear trees.

Perfect christmas gift for tarantula lovers :)

Here you can see another one of my precious boys. This pretty Indian tarantula has a fabulous coloration and stunning ornament on its carapax. Especially right after molt the intensitiy of the blue hair is amazing.

A cool spider on a heart with its web ! For spider lovers, made by a spider lover !

A cool spider on a heart with its web ! For spider lovers, made by a spider lover !

A cool spider on a heart with its web ! For spider lovers, made by a spider lover !

A cool spider on a heart with its web ! For spider lovers, made by a spider lover !

Ocean inhabitants

Its not very often that you can make 'art' from something that's dead and get away with it... but ever since a 'little boy' who would often collect flotsam and jetsam off the beaches ~ creating collections in the sand ~ I have been fascinated with the Ocean and all its wonders... To this day ~ I wonder 'why' we don't seem to have 'enough respect' and 'love' for the Oceans... as I approach middle age ~ nothing seems to have changed ~ in fact things have gotten worse... I sit here in my studio, a 'grown up' ~ listening to blues music ~ and ruminate over the loss of such a 'critical species' ~ the sharks. Cow-nose rays (named for obvious reasons) ~ are such a pretty species of shark ~ essential 'tillers of the seabed'. They tend to...

tentacular spectacular

A cool spider on a heart with its web ! For spider lovers, made by a spider lover !

A gathering of jellyfish is known as a swarm or a bloom. This colorful assortment wishes to say hello.

This tiny beauty is a predator of the infamous Portuguese Man of War!

A cool spider on a heart with its web ! For spider lovers, made by a spider lover !