Creepy, Crawly Tattoo Bugs

Artemis Roehrig is a children’s book coauthor and wrote the text for Super, Strong Tattoo Sharks, Roaring, Rumbling Tattoo Dinosaurs, Creepy, Crawly Tattoo Bugs, and Fluttery, Friendly Tattoo Butterflies and Other Insects. She grew up in Western Massachusetts and spent summers on Cape Cod where she worked at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. After graduating from Skidmore College, she received her master’s degree from the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology program at the University of Massachusetts. She continues to research invasive insects in the Elkinton Lab.

Jillian Ditner combines her knowledge of science and passion for visual communication in her work as a graphic designer and scientific illustrator. She earned a graduate degree in science illustration from California State University — Monterey Bay, where she honed her observational skills and pursued interests in naturalist subjects. Ditner lives in Ithaca, New York, and works at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as a graphics editor.