Common yellowthroat sketch
It’s firefly season again! 🔥🪰 / ⚡️🐞
Spring Tree-Top Flasher
“Consider the charisma of a firefly: a beetle that makes no one cringe, that we chase after with jars, a thing that glows. Consider that a firefly is a firefly for only two weeks. That before it is a firefly, it crawls through the dark for a year, wingless. It eats and eats. It tunnels through leaf litter, lethal and glowing. With its mandible it pierces slugs, earthworms, and snails, paralyzing them with venom. It glows so as not to be eaten. It molts out of its exoskeleton and grows bigger.
We assume fireflies will always be here for us, a ritual that carries children through summer dusks. But are our lawns too short, our nights too bright with artificial light? By the time we see them, fireflies have spent a winter underground and have emerged, frenzied to mate, into a confusing world that is not dark enough. They do not eat. Singleminded, they lack even mouthparts. They try to make the brightest flash.” - Kateri Kosek
New to my Etsy shop… Holographic luna moth stickers! $4- free shipping. jadafitch.etsy.com
Some freshwater larvae and invertebrates, commissioned by the Poland Spring Museum. Dragonfly, stonefly, caddisfly, damselfly, mayfly, dobsonfly, blackfly, snail, and leech.
Butterflies & Moths, vinyl sticker sheets! $6 in my ETSY SHOP
Question Mark (Polygonia interrogationis), Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia), Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa).
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Pale Swallowtail
Painting a life sized scud under my new magnifier lamp.
Cecropia Silkmoth (Hyalophora cecropia), watercolor, 10X13” Available in my Etsy shop.
Good news, everyone! My Moths of North America art is now a fabric pattern! Also gift wrap and wallpaper. Check it out.https://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/6884852-moths-north-america-by-jadafitch
Plenty of original watercolor moth paintings still for sale. Painted at twice their actual size. They make great gifts for the lepidopterists in your life. www.etsy.com/shop/jadafitch
Imperial Moth (Eacles imperialis)
Between projects, trying to finish up a painting I started last summer. “Butterflies of Maine” I’ve been too busy with other assignmens to work on it. Seeing my first morning cloak of the year a couple weeks ago inspired me to try and finish it. Hope the little guy made it though the snow.