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Nicole 🪲

@fossilforager.bsky.social

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Naturalist & illustrator based in California 🌸 Draws bugs & other critters (she/her) 🛒🐛: shop.fossilforager.art global 🛒🐝: fossilforagershop.etsy.com Links to my Patreon sticker club, newsletter, & more: fossilforager.carrd.co

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hi everyone! I’m Nicole! I’m an illustrator & designer who is incredibly passionate about ecology and creatures! I love making art and merch for all nature lovers, whether you’re a hobbyist or scientist! 🦋🌱

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An illustrated taxonomy poster featuring native bees found in North America, illustrated on a light periwinkle-blue background. The bees are all illustrated in various poses on native wildflowers or according to their species-specific behaviors. From top to bottom, left to right, there is the yellow-faced bumblebee, the orchard mason bee, the blueberry cellophane bee, the common long-horned bee, the western leaf cutter bee, the bumblebee-like digger bee, the bicolored sweat bee, and the eastern carpenter bee.

An illustration of a humpback whale skeleton laying on the sea floor, surrounded by pink octopuses, rat-tailed fish, a giant isopod, a grooved tanner cab, and hagfish! They are illustrated on a dark blue background.

An illustrated tiled pattern showing 6 species of salamanders and newts native to California arranged on a light blue background. They are mostly earthy brown, orange, yellow, and black. There are water droplets, sorrel, and redwood leaf litter scattered in between the amphibians.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 1h

yess!!

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 1h

if so fuzzy and cute why live in my drain (love them so much tho)

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you so much! 💕

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 6h

sounds wonderful!!! the phone camera roll really is op for storing references

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 6h

YEAHHH

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 6h

Ahh thank you!!! That really means a lot 😭 I hope it arrives to you safely!!

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 6h

Ahh yay I’m so glad that was helpful! Thank you so much for grabbing one :) 💕

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 6h

Lyme disease, malaria, and other diseases have real human impacts! on the other hand, there are researchers who study these diseases who want art of their study organisms. ticks just happen to be animals part of ecological niche that feed on humans and can spread disease, unfortunately for us

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 6h

yeah I def get that! I think it’s perfectly natural to have a nuanced and complicated relationship with disease vector species

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 8h

personal pocket dipteran collection in my pocket computer. what a time to live in

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 8h

They’re so baby ❤️

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 9h

Available here! shop.fossilforager.art/product/tiny...

Tiny Enamel Pin - Blacklegged Tick

These tiny pins are great for filling in empty pin board spaces, or just adding a tiny tick to your jacket/bag/shirt! 𓆣 Hard enamel with gold metal...

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 9h

tick pin, anyone?

A photo of a black legged tick enamel pin. It is small and plated with gold metal, and has a blackish-brown scutum and head with a red-orange body. The legs are black. It is photographed on a lichen-covered rock.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 9h

thank you!!! just means I’ll have to have more available for next time ;)

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 10h

I’ll be placing a restock order for them next week, I’m keeping my fingers crossed they’ll arrive in time for the holiday season.. I thought this launch’s inventory would last until the end of the year, but I think I underestimated the amount of whale fall fans out there 🐋