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Pollinator Week is a great time to share this print, which expresses the central theme of my work about the Future of Pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Our food sources & ecosystems around us are dependent on pollinators (mostly bees & other insects, some birds & mammals) but insects populations have lost huge numbers and many species altogether.🧵

#PollinatorWeek #nativeBees #entomology #ecology #sciart #insects #butterflies #beetles #moths #printmaking #linocut #ManufacturedEcosystems

As described this 16” x 20” linocut print combines gold text in a central circle reading “OUR FATE” arching upwards, “IS TIED” horizontally across the middle, “TO THAT OF THE INSECTS” arching downwards in two lines with insects. Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), the Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the Virgin Tiger moth (Apantesis virgo), an Isabella’s Longwings butterfly (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), a blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), a firefly (Photinus pyralis), the rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), a white underwing moth (Catocala relicta), an eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.), a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta).
On an abstract background of teal and sand, black text on a white background reads, ‘Manufactured Ecosystems The Art and Science of Ecosystem Design’
#ecology #sciart #insects #entomology #beetles #printmaking #moths #butterflies #linocut #nativebees #pollinatorweek #manufacturedecosystems

The Venezuelan poodle moth is a beautiful animal. There was an article back in 2012 in #TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/culture/archiv… that traced the story and found out that it was real and not an internet fake.

The source of the photo for the Venezuelan poodle moth: flickr.com/photos/artour_a/420…

That album by Arthur Anker contains many more photos of extraordinary neotropical moths flickr.com/photos/artour_a/alb… plus a few other insects.

The photos are simply out of this world. Here are a couple of my favourites:

Amastus epicostosia - aposematic tiger moth flickr.com/photos/artour_a/257…

"Bolognese caterpillar" of a moth (Megalopyge sp.) from Ecuador flickr.com/photos/artour_a/504…

Photos by Arthur Anker.

#moths #Lepidoptera #insects #entomology #PoodleMoth #ArthurAnker #caterpillar

Amastus epicostosia - aposematic tiger moth. Seen in profile on a rock with some moss, the moth has a bright red dorsal side of the abdomen with a few white circles lined by a black line. The thorax has a white and a black line running parallel to each other. Antennae and legs are dark, nearly black. To the top left there's an insect from dorsal view.
"Bolognese caterpillar" of a moth (Megalopyge sp) from Ecuador. Shows a very woolly caterpillar with a yellow long mane in the anterior segments and white fur-like cover of all other segments, laying on a leaf.

"Bolognese caterpillar" of a moth (Megalopyge sp) from Ecuador

a caterpillar of a megalopygid moth, Megalopyge sp
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#insects #entomology #moths #lepidoptera #caterpillar #arthuranker #poodlemoth #theatlantic

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