Here are a few of my favorite entomological valentines. Enjoy! And if you come across any others, please link to them in the comments.

“Gimme some sugar, baby” by Bird and Moon

Praying mantis fabric

“Will you be my val-ANT-ine?” by Alex Wild

There are also some great twitter hashtags happening, such as #academicvalentines and #sciencevalentines.

Now that I’m single, it’s just me and my pets and my specimens. But when you have a specimen collection, you’re never really alone. I will probably spend much of today working with moth genitalic dissections – romantic, eh?