6 months of moths for 2026
Celebrate the Yer of the Moth by Creating Mothy Art every week from Febraury until Moth Week!
0. February 2 - The White Witch (Thysania agrippina)
1. February 9 - Bella Moth (Utetheisa ornatrix)
*2. February 16 - Cryptoses choloepi (lives in sloth)
3. February 23 - Luna moth (Actias luna)
4. March 2 - Vampire moth (Calyptra thalictra)
5. March 9 - Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica
6. March 16 - Morgan’s sphinx moth (X. morganii)
7. March 23 - Death’s-head hawkmoth (Acherontia Atropos)
8. March 30 - Heterogynis penella
9. April 6 - The Nonconformist (Lithophane lamda)
10. April 13 - Water veneer (Acentria ephemerella)
11. April 20 - Monopis moth (Monopis laevigella)
12. April 27 - Astronomer Moth (Olethreutes astrologana)
13. May 4 - Police car moth (Gnophaela vermiculata)
14. May 11 - Discrete Chaperon (Cymbalophora pudica)
15. May 18 - Neighbor Moth (Haploa contigua)
16. May 25 - Green Marvel (Acronicta fallax)
17. June 1 - Four o'Clock Moth (Dysphania numana)
18. June 8 - Brahmin Moth, Indonesian owl moth (Brahmaea hearsyi)
19. June 15 - Atlas moth (Attacus atlas)
20. June 22 - Hornet moth (Sesia apiformis)
21. June 29 - Comet moth (Argema mittrei)
22. July 6 - Io moth (Automeris io)
23. July 13 - Rosy maple moth (Dryocampa rubicunda)
24. July 20 (Start of Moth Week) - Plutodes cyclaria
25. July 21 - Musical mandolin moth (Rileyiana fovea)
26. July 22 - the Somber Carpet (Disclisioprocta stellata)
27. July 23 - Agreeable Tiger Moth (Spilosoma congrua)
28. July 24 - the Dubious Tiger Moth (Spilosoma dubia)
29. July 25 - the Scorched Carpet (Ligdia adustata)
30. July 26 (End of Moth Week) - the Drinker (Euthrix potatoria)
Remember how I said it is YEAR OF THE MOTH!?
PL Weng put together an awesome list of Moths that you can celebrate each week from February until Moth Week! Think of it as a fun #SciArt Challenge!
Get ready to make this year Mothy!
#moth #teamMoth #YearOfTheMoth
17.01.2026 05:59
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My contribution in the fight against AI generated "art" 💙🐙 #sciart #octopus #supporthumanartists #digitalillustration
26.02.2026 15:33
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Omg thank you so much! 🥰 My portfolio is stacked with them because I end up drawing them over and over 😅
23.02.2026 19:54
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My linocut portrait of Gladys West with 3 satellites important to her career in indigo in from of world map with satellites tracks in blue.
#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate #mathematician & #geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930-2026). Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. 🧪🐡👩🏾🔬🧮⚒️ #histsci Her work using math to precisely model the shape of Earth laid groundwork for GPS!
23.02.2026 12:11
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Pink and Periwinkle Cephalopods 🩷🦑🐙 A few of my favorites all together: Nautilus, Cuttlefish, Vampire Squid, Dumbo Octopus 🥰 (Procreate)
#sciart #cephalopods #digitalillustration
23.02.2026 14:38
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Watercolor painting on gray whale with some shells and rocks on the paper
Happy World Whale Day! #worldwhaleday 🐋🦑🌊💙
15.02.2026 21:19
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Two digitally illustrated shrimp on a pink background, facing eachother with silly, googly looking eyes. A heart sits above their heads and their bodies form a half heart.
Text above them reads "will you be my shrimping-tine?"
rather late on sharing this but that's ok!
15.02.2026 23:25
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Happy World Whale Day! 🐳💙🩵 #sciart #whaleart #digitalillustration #worldwhaleday
15.02.2026 19:30
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A photo of my iPad showing a white canvas with black line art depicting various Cambrian period invertebrates.
someone please tell me drawing all of these weird Cambrian guys will be worth it
11.02.2026 23:17
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Keep it Shrimple
11.02.2026 22:34
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So excited that this print is on the way to their final home! "The sweetest Strawberry" 8x10 Digital Art #thelastofus #fanart #procreate #digitalillustration
09.02.2026 16:54
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A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"
Ferbruary #oldknees
01.02.2026 20:15
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illustration of a variety of sea creatures
featured are
orca, narwhal, whale shark, blacktip shark,
sea horse, manta ray, and mola mola
starry sea creatures 🌠
#art #sharks
02.02.2026 04:35
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Happy Halloween! Here is a favorite of mine, "Pumpkin Spice" 🎃 #pumpkinspice #halloween #digitalart #pumpkinart
31.10.2025 16:27
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This little orca is on the way to a forever home! 🥰🐋 #sciart #whalemail #smallbusiness
22.10.2025 14:46
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My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.
For day 12 of #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮🔭 #histsci She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, 🧵
12.10.2025 12:25
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I was gifted this incredible shirt yesterday and had to share! I literally cried with joy 😭🥰🐟🌊 @sulkypup.bsky.social #sciart #fishart #wearingart
10.10.2025 15:21
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Invertober 2025
1. Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica)
2. Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
3. Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica)
4. Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus)
5. Painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor)
6. Buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala)
7. Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum)
8. Bee-killer robber fly (Mallophora fautrix)
9. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi)
10. Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)
11. Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus)
12. Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula)
13. Banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus)
14. Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois)
15. Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing
(Ornithoptera alexandrae)
16. Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus)
17. Blue-lined flatworm (Pseudoceros concinnus)
18. Black & yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium)
19. Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
20. By-the-wind sailor (Velella velella)
21. Flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata)
22. Sea angel (Clione limacina)
23. Pink sand dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela albissima)
24. New Zealand mussel (Perna canaliculus)
25. House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
26. Sea bunny (Jorunna parva)
27. American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis)
28. Pearly green lacewing (Chrysopa perla)
29. Red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus)
30. Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis)
31. Death’s-head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos)
The Invertober prompt list for 2025 is HERE! If you’re looking for an invert-themed art prompt list for the month of October, here it is 🦀🪲🐚💕 #sciart #invertober #invertober2025
26.09.2025 18:48
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A giant purple tentacle curls around into a spiral within the rectangular frame.
Sharing some cephalopod love for World Octopus Day! 💜🐙
'Purple Tentacles' (Ink & Watercolor)
#sciart #worldoctopusday #octopusart #cephalopods #watercolor
09.10.2025 13:51
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Marker and Prismacolor illustration of a Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) on gray Canson charcoal paper.
One of the OG. This Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) was one of the very first sharks I illustrated in this style waaaaaaay back in 1994. I love the way she turned out! 🦈💙🤙
#shark #greatwhite #sharkweek #marinelife #sciart #nature #fish #fishart #animal #animalart #ArtYear #bskyart #art
24.07.2025 00:57
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Space art cuz my recent fascination of art backgrounds for phones.
A lonely spaceship cruising between a double ringed planet and one that is illuminated by a bright white/pink star behind it. Edge lighting and dithering into the background color to help sell the empty darkness as well. Some space jellyfish on the bottom right swimming out of a fluffy space cloud. Dim stars illuminating from parsecs away.
🧵 Space art thread 🪐
I recently got inspired by @dyamode.bsky.social to draw mobile background and always wanted to explore space as a theme, so here we go, some space themed mobile backgrounds. (soon on Ko-fi for free).
108x184, palette: bittersweet lospec
#pixelart #space #digitalart
23.07.2025 20:38
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A light colored narwhal, with de-saturated indigo instead of the more natural darker gray seen in the wild, faces to the viewer's left and seemed to make eye contact. It has an upward-curving mouth that makes it seem friendly. The larger amount of white speckles makes it appear somewhere between a narwhal and a beluga in color.
Its tail is curved slightly downward, mid-swim. Unlike many other whales, the narwhal does not have a dorsal fin. It has a long spiraling tusk emerging from the front of its face.
The glowing white silhouettes of 3 narwhals emerge from the ocean to the surface, their tusks reaching towards the sky. The sky is a watercolor painting with blending pinks, blues, and green, referencing the enhanced photos of nebula taken by deep space telescopes. White opaque splatters imitate stars and distant galaxies. A single bright star in the upper right quadrant appears brighter and clearer than the rest.
The choppy ocean surface reflects the sky's colors. Icebergs float off in the distance but the water around the 3 narwhals is open.
Digital painting featuring two orcas spyhopping through a break in the ice, seeming to look at an aurora-filled starry sky.
Happy World Whale and Dolphin Day!
24.07.2025 03:37
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A spyhopping orca for World Whale and Dolphin Day! #sciart #gouache #orca #whaleanddolphinday 🐋🐬💙
23.07.2025 16:03
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Sharing an older postcard for World Snake Day! 🐍 #watercolor #sciart #postcardart #worldsnakeday
17.07.2025 15:17
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Happy 50th Anniversary to one of my lifelong favorite movies, JAWS! 💙 Time for my annual viewing! 🎥🎬🏖️🎆🦈 #jawsmovie #jaws50th #fourthofjuly #yearlyritual #sharks
04.07.2025 20:38
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Mahoukarps booth at anime expo artists alley Q41
My booth at anime expo Q41! 🦈🦈🦈
04.07.2025 19:06
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Tiny Green 6/2019 6.5 X 6.5 inches [16.5 X 16.5 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper. #sciart #gawoski #pollen
29.06.2025 16:23
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For Throwback Thursday I'm sharing a favorite from the past!
"Otters in Love" 8x10 Digital Illustration ❤️🦦❤️ #tbt #sciart #otters #otterart
26.06.2025 15:05
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Digital scratchpad drawing of a fish with red plants and squiggles
Chinese sturgeon and red algae 🐡🦑 #sundayfishsketch
26.06.2025 13:49
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