Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist

💪🔥🖤 Never.

Digital comic style painting of Sphex pensylvanicus bursting through a frame of ice.

They cannot terrorize us into submission.
We will protect our vibrant communities.
We will fight back.

Abolish ICE!

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Thanks so much Alice. 💌🥹

Thank you! That's a huge compliment from such a talented artist. 💌

I guess Ive always been captivated by how the tiny intricate natural textures play with light & love recreating that in art. Takes longer to add the layering, but it makes me happy and rewards the viewer for looking closely I think!

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Its true

Framed watercolor and gouache botanical painting of a Penstemon inflorescence pollinated by pollen wasps.

Watercolor and gouache botanical illustration of a Penstemon inflorescence being pollinated by pollen wasps.

Closeup of a watercolor and gouache illustration of a pollen wasp and Penstemon blooms.

Penstemon Inflorescence and Pollen Wasps. (2026)

Watercolor and gouache on 8x10" cotton paper. Commissioned work.

It was a delight to paint this delicate botanical piece as a gift for a client’s grad school supervisor.

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Where no crawly is creepy!
LindZeamays Illustration
Lindzeamays.com

The process...

Digitally painted research figure created for Rutgers entomologist Cesar Rodriguez-Saona.

🫐The goal is to better understand the drivers of spotted-wing Drosophila oviposition (egg laying) to improve management strategies for this destructive herbivore of fleshy fruits.

🫐These assays combine laboratory and field-based approaches to evaluate SWD decision-making in response to (A) harvested plant material, (B) intact blueberry branches, and (C) extracted volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

Science illustration depicting three experimental assays used to determine the role of leaf volatiles in the attraction of Spotted-wing Drosophila to blueberry fruit.

✨New science illustration✨
Visualizing three experimental approaches to assess how leaf volatiles influence spotted-wing Drosophila (SWD) attraction to blueberry fruit.

(Details in thread below)

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Where no crawly is creepy!
LindZeamays Illustration
Lindzeamays.com
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🌿Once her egg hatches, the larva feeds on the horntail larva, completing its development inside the tree. This helps naturally regulate horntail populations and defends forest health.

🌿By sensing subtle vibrations, M. macrurus locates larvae of pigeon horntail wasps (Tremex columba) dwelling in the bark of decaying coniferous trees. She then uses the long ovipositor to drill through the wood and deposit an egg into the horntail larva.

🌿This North American parasitic wasp may look creepy, but they're completely harmless to humans. The long, threadlike structure on their abdomen is not a stinger but an ovipositor, used to drill into wood and deposit eggs.

Megarhyssa macrurus science illustration using both traditional colored pencil and digital mediums.

✨Megarhyssa macrurus✨ Finished drawing using a hybrid traditional and digital technique.

This iconic giant parasitoid wasp has the longest ovipositor of all insects!

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Where no crawly is creepy!
LindZeamays Illustration
Lindzeamays.com

Ink and colored pencil sketch of a Eutrichotid fly on a small travel sketchbook page.

🪰Sketch of a Eutrichotid fly🪰

Decided to add some color to a loose little ink drawing in the travel sketchbook. Flies look so comical with their cute space cadet faces and short aristate antennae.

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Philly Nature Journaling Club is back up and running this month! Have you been curious about observing and recording nature with us? Come check it out! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Image of the artist sketching in nature beside the numbers 2025.

If the past year taught us anything, it’s that we can’t rely on billionaires or greedy rulers to fix what’s broken. Change comes from people organizing, caring, and demanding better.

Don’t ever lose hope, friends. 💚

Love and support,

Lindsay Lindhult
LindZeamays Illustration
LindZeamays.com

Science, along with human rights, continues to face real threats here in the U.S. But science communicators & creatives aren’t going anywhere. We will continue to support scientists, share the evidence in digestible ways, & build strength and equity of knowledge within our communities.

I'm so grateful for the friendships formed this past year. Special thanks to @jackiemcastle.bsky.social , @baileybat.bsky.social , @sarahmackattack.bsky.social , and @megstampede.bsky.social for the encouragement & mentorship along the way. Can’t wait to collaborate more in the year ahead.

By providing creativity space to lead my days, I've finally picked up the pieces of a burnt-out shell & rediscovered my passion for science & arthropods again. The growth of my little biz in 2025 has given me gusto to continue on this journey.
So huge thanks to you all for your support. 💚

So I decided to let go. Let go of expectations and the version of success I was told to chase. I followed my calling of science illustration - a dream I've had since I was a teen but, at the time, didn't realize it could become a viable career.

The pressure to constantly publish and show progress drained the wonder from the biology I that I loved. I kept showing up to my workplace and going through the motions, but I couldn't focus and craved making art.

The end of 2025 marks my first full year going all-in on LindZeamays Illustration after leaving a stable (but deeply exhausting) research job. I was burnt out from project overload, uninspired by endless days of code, & often removed from the plants and insects that drew me to science.

Lindsay Lindhult 's Art vs. Artist post of 2025. This layout shows an image of the artist beside the numbers 2025. The rest of the layout shows a collection of their favorite projects over the past year.

✨#artvsartist 2025✨

This one’s late.
I needed some time to reflect on where I fit in this increasingly troubling world & what the future holds for science and science-adjacent creators.

A thread of reflection: 👇

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Thank you 💚🥹

The artist, LindZeamays, holds up their framed acrylic painting of a green iridescent Augochlorine sweat bee pollinating a southern frog fruit influorescence.

Acrylic painting of a green iridescent Augochlorine sweat bee pollinating a southern frog fruit influorescence.

✨New Original work!✨

Augochlorine sweat bee pollinating Southern frog fruit. Acrylic on 8x10 canvas board. Available!

Prints coming soon on my website!

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Where no crawly is creepy!
LindZeamays Illustration
Lindzeamays.com

🐡🎨🪳🪲🐝 #bsnm #invertefest

Go follow my friend Sarah, who creates stunning realistic nature art 😍💚

Merry Grubmas! 🎄😍