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Glow Little Glow-Worm

Posted on April 8, 2011 by swarm

Happy Friday! the Mills Brothers bring us this love song to a Lampyrid, courtesy of my dearest hive-mate, who’s been singing it all week: Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer. Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer. Lead us lest too far we … Continue reading →

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Bees!!!

Posted on April 6, 2011 by swarm

Continuing my wordpress testing this morning with BEES!!! If I had a talk show, this would happen every night. Just look at the joy on their faces!

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Hocus Locust

Posted on April 6, 2011 by swarm

tumblr “permalink” tumblr Image: Working out some kinks in the wordpress image posting. There seems to be some disconnect between tumblr. What better way to do so than with some insect art? I’m glad you agree! uploaded from my computer: … Continue reading →

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The Insect Art of Laura Schlipf

Posted on April 5, 2011 by swarm

Scratch some insect art and you find a swarm underneath. A found image of beautifully carved insect legs led me to the work of versatile artist Laura Schlipf.  Being a fan of insect legs as an art theme, I hunted … Continue reading →

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Delicious Insect Overlords!

Posted on April 3, 2011 by swarm

Whole Foods posted a fake “insect ranching practices” chart on their website last Friday for April Fool’s, a lovely parody of the often complicated food location breakdowns that are posted in Whole Foods grocery stores. (Cicadas are ranched with “No … Continue reading →

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Jo Whaley book signing April 7th at The Bone Room

Posted on April 3, 2011 by swarm

If you live in the Bay Area and love insects, there is no excuse for not visiting The Bone Room in Albany. Ron and Diane Cauble have created a curiosity cabinet of undisputed excellence- a miniature natural history museum full … Continue reading →

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Elite Elytra

Posted on March 20, 2011 by swarm

A famous Victorian dress worn by Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth is being restored to its original splendor. Part of that splendor involved the replacement and repair of over 1,000 buprestid jewel beetle elytra. . Check out the history of … Continue reading →

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machine insects

Posted on March 10, 2011 by swarm

A series of simple yet enjoyable xerox-machine mashups on Nicolas Lampert’s gallery: from the 2005 MASS MoCA show “Becoming Animals” (I must state that above critter is not based on an ant, but since it’s a fantasy creature we’ll give … Continue reading →

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Arthropod Ammunition

Posted on March 9, 2011 by swarm

Lovely article about Tom Hardwidge‘s ammunition-and-clockwork insect creations from a recycling blog. Not only are they beautiful, he has given them their own taxonomy! Adding scientific names to anything always strikes a chord with me, so here are some of … Continue reading →

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Stick Insects

Posted on March 8, 2011 by swarm

I totally dig the wooden wing details in Kyle Bean’s matchstick insects. Even more enjoyable than the above photos by Owen Silverwood, fredbutlerstyle has some lovely in-progress shots of the dragonfly.

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