I have been putting together a poster of insects to spot in a summer garden. Here is a selection of my illustrations which are collaged from discarded magazines.

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Day 21 of

Meet the insects!

Today is the first day of so let's celebrate these most important creatures. We've been loving the stag beetle recently; which insects interest you most? Do you have any fun insect facts?

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Ending with the wonderful Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-1717. German-born entomologist & artist, one of our earliest known women scientific travellers. More about her, other & in my guest post for : https://t.co/min1kI02XE

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A quick Lucanus cervus (M) illustration to celebrate and !! National Insect Week started on the 22nd of June, so I'm a little late to the party 🐞🐞🐞

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Continuing with our theme for 48 beautiful drawings of plants, and spiders created by Indian artists and collected by William Carey (1761-1834)

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Did you know? It's We're particularly fond of these beautiful colourful insects in Christiana Herringham's 'Butterflies, Dragonflies and Damselflies' 🦋#NIW2020

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Yup there was a zoo in Aberdeen until it closed due to financial difficulties in 1977.

We have the plans for some pretty cool buildings that were never built in our collections and on our activity page https://t.co/w9bCW8gYdE

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In 1832, when Hokusai made this print, frogs and other amphibians were considered insects in Japan.

Convolvulus and Tree-frog. Ukiyo-e. Hokusai, Katsushika. Colour print from woodblocks, 1832.

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Oh dear, this bloody-nosed beetle got so excited about that it had a little accident!

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"There was a wee lassie who swallowed a midgie. I don't know why she swallowed the midgie, so teeny and squidgy!" https://t.co/SPhOZKeF4N

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How to identify plant galls

Galls are abnormal growths caused when another organism (often an insect) interferes with a plant’s cells: https://t.co/MUiCA7Lpsk
🖌 Felicity Rose Cole

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How to identify common caterpillars

Here are 12 common UK species for you to look for with typical foodplants: https://t.co/KxzsTAiHtk
🖌 Felicity Rose Cole

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In celebration of here's a meadow 🐝🦋🐞🌼🌻

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Enormously proud of my this ek, look at the & they've illustrated this A new set to teach 2mw; looking forward to more &

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- Here's one of the panorama pictures for the JR Audiology Dept...featuring Grasshopper and Beetle...

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I love that my Birthday falls in I love drawing them so much and this grasshopper is one of my favourite insect illustrations I have done to date.

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