Moth Monarch

【Rippi/リッピ】

fuzzy bugs series

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srry i was writing a course paper

we’re raised to hate and fear them, in societies that profit immeasurably from the pursuit of their eradication

still, humans aren’t born with hate. it’s a great advantage when they can learn to overcome learned perceptions

it just reminds me that even with all the bad, the spaces where the light shines through persist. the lichen grows on the light pole. . . the moss fights through the grass. . . the spider weaves her web in the doorframe. . .

to all my fellow bug enjoyers, i love you and all your love for the neglected things

every time a little life finds itself safe with you, is something more important than i can put into words. the world will beat us all down again, and again - but your heart is soft and your gaze is not scathing. for that, you are an incredible gem

I made some stickers of my fave kinds of bugs and I will be making even more of my fave bugs as stickers & artwork in the future!!

You can Grab them here!: (Please Buy directly from my store if you can! as Etsy takes a Large Chunk of fees on all my orders)

Or on Etsy:

https://oddsockzxart.etsy.com/uk/listing/4486077771/bug-buddies-handmade-glossy-vinyl-insect

Materials, steps, and tips under cut:

"Keep Growing" 🍃

This cute little caterpillar believes in you! Coming soon as stickers to my shop & more! 🐛

Also added to my Redbubble along with some items featuring the recent "Starchild" celestial caterpillar illustration! Check these & other favorites out now:

Charles Turner was born in the United States just a few years after the end of the civil war. His brilliance was evident from the start, and after graduating valedictorian of his high school class he quickly went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in short order. While in school, Turner’s relentless curiosity became his greatest advantage. He was drawn to and fascinated by topics that were largely ignored by modern science at the time, namely the cognitive behaviors of insects and other invertebrates. While many of his colleagues believed insects to be mindless automata acting on instinct alone, Turner felt deeply that the brains of these oft overlooked animals were far more complex than the scientific community suspected. He performed extensive experiments to test his theories and found overwhelming evidence of problem solving and individualism among organisms as small as ants and spiders.

By the time Turner earned his zoology pHD in 1907 he had published dozens of papers in highly esteemed journals and had even co-authored a book. It is likely that Turner was the first African American to earn a pHD from the University of Chicago. With such a sparkling academic reputation and enormous body of research, one would expect this candidate to have no issues obtaining a professorship at a prestigious school. Though by every right Turner should have been head of science department at a top university, the systemic racism that permeated academia meant that doors a white man would have walked through were locked and bolted shut for Charles Henry Turner.

Turner did not allow this prejudice to dim in any way his blindingly bright passion for knowledge. He took a job as a high school teacher, and continued to perform and publish research on his own all while he instilled his students with a love for zoology. He published more than 70 papers in extremely respected journals and he remained passionately curious for the entirety of his life. If I tried to list here all of the incredible discoveries Turner made in his lifetime it would take me days to sufficiently express the impact he had on the field of invertebrate behavior. His experiments were so ahead of their time that entomologists today marvel at his research and wonder how much more we would know if Turner’s work had been given the attention and respect of other scientists working at the time. Turner’s mind was about a century ahead of those entomological contemporaries who had no interest in giving him a seat at the table. His tombstone simply reads “scientist”