i have had many different usernames over the years, but trueBug is what i used on the MSPA forums. i was gearing up to start some graduate school applications at the time, i was aspiring to become entomologist, and the true bugs (hemiptera- more specifically heteroptera) were the group i was most interested in researching. lucky for me, i got into a program and got to spend a few years looking at my favorite critters under the microscope!

my graduate thesis was on their ovipositor morphology. i got really good at drawing those things.

sometimes i think about how much money i could make with that particular skill.