A drawing of a meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) as one last post for (although let’s be honest, I’ll never stop chirping on about insects! 🦗😉)

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The Pyrallis is an insect resembling a large fly with four(!) legs that Pliny wrote lived in copper-smelting furnaces on Cyprus. It draws its lifeforce from the and if it flies out of the flames it instantly dies🔥

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Peacock & red admiral are today's plates from Rösel von Rosenhof's publication, [1764] 🐛🦋
Interested in butterflies? 16 Jul-8 Aug: https://t.co/c7bCVqG5f1
& https://t.co/Je9ZY1ICJW

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For we've taken to Instagram to talk about some of our favourite six-legged model organisms with the public. Take a look at our first profile: the original lab insect, Drosophila melanogaster https://t.co/JhflMzIqGn

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The franchise has become very special and important to me, as well as and the world 😊.

What would be better than making an art for or one for Both at the same time 😁! Adding also, the

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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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