Cockroach Tea

via Cabinet of Orthopteroid Curiosities: Cockroach Tea

Mantis Ice Sculpture

via Cabinet of Orthopteroid Curiosities: Mantis Ice Sculpture

Insect Art

This Tumblr has loads of great images: Scientific Illustration

In the News: Making art is a bug’s life

From the Norwich Evening News: Making art is a bug’s life

Close up, out of context, they look like highly decorative pieces of jewellery. Except these sparkling pieces of gold, pearl and gem stones aren’t the work of a jeweller, rather they have been produced by a particularly industrious insect who will draw on whatever it finds to create a cocoon.

Caddis fly larvae are known to incorporate bits of whatever they can find into their cocoons, be it fish bone or bits of leaves. However when placed in a tank with flakes of gold and gemstones, the caddis flies simply create their protective sheaths from these materials instead.

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More links:

• Pestival: Caddis Fly Sculptures
• Cabinet Magazine: Artist Project / Trichopterae
• Leonardo Online (author interview): The Wonderful Caddis Worm: Sculptural Work in Collaboration with Trichoptera

"And God Was A Fly"

Surreal artwork by Joe MacGown

Maybe we have it all wrong, perhaps the great mother is a fly. why do we always consider ourselves to be the dominant species anyway?

See on the artist's site: "And God was a Fly"

Nice art, bad spelling

Some cool artwork at Creative Review - although their spelling of entomology is pretty terrible....

Dead Insect Art

Dead Insect Art: thanks to Heather for the link.

Some Bug Art

This is taken from the Rogue Entomologist, the website of artist Judith Klausner. There are also some depictions of beheading featuring mantids.