#InverteFest is running now through the 31st and since the weather here in Seattle has either been ice or pouring rain, I have instead sat inside and worked on my nature journal. I’ve painted two pages of invertebrates from my summer outings, both in Washington state. But one was east of the Cascades, in a climate very different from Seattle and as such, I was treated to a lot of different insects, including some really spectacular ambush bugs, which I hope to write a Field Journal article about soon. The second trip was from a mountainside river in the Cascade Mountains and although it’s somewhere I visit every year, I always find new insects.
You are welcome to participate in #InverteFest as well! All you have to do is go look for invertebrates, read about the, draw them or otherwise connect with the huge world of inverts, and then share what you discover on social media, your website or other places. Or join the iNaturalist InverteFest project and contribute your observations to community science!
