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Furniss, Malcolm M. “Mary Foley Benson: Master of the Art of Scientific Illustration of Insects and Flowers.” Entomology & Nematology News, Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California (June 21, 2022). Garvey, Kathy Keatley. “Draw-a-Bug Competition at Bohart Museum.”
Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) [1] was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly.
Scientific illustration of insects is an older technique used to preserve information about collected insects. It visually documents insects, and unlike photography, can add intellectual ideas about anatomy and behavior of the insect through artists' renditions.
Insect cooking oil, insect butter and fatty alcohols can be made from such insects as the superworm (Zophobas morio). [199] Insect species including the black soldier fly or the housefly in their maggot forms, and beetle larvae such as mealworms , can be processed and used as feed for farmed animals including chicken, fish and pigs. [ 200 ]
In 1984, the National Museum of Natural History held an exhibition of 80 of Gast's works, including illustrations of fossils, fish, insects and invertebrates. [2] She retired a year later, in 1985. Outside of her scientific work, Gast was also interested in medieval illuminated manuscripts and created a three-dimensional alphabet in this style. [5]
The family Phylliidae (often misspelled Phyllidae) contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkably camouflaged leaf mimics (mimesis) in the entire animal kingdom. They occur from South Asia through Southeast Asia to Australia. Earlier sources treat Phylliidae as a much larger taxon, containing ...
All insects are poikilothermic, [136] so the ability of a few beetles to live in extreme environments depends on their resilience to unusually high or low temperatures. The bark beetle Pityogenes chalcographus can survive −39 °C whilst overwintering beneath tree bark; [ 137 ] the Alaskan beetle Cucujus clavipes puniceus is able to withstand ...
Illustration of Gerarus collaris. Gerarus is an extinct genus of Archaeorthopteran insect, and is one of the most abundant genera of Carboniferous insects. [1] They had a wingspan of up to 10 centimetres (4 in), and an inflated thorax armed with sharp spines up to 1 millimetre (0.04 in) long. [1] Gerarus sp. fossil and an indeterminate ...