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Mechanical Insects
- Insect Lab"Insect Lab started 20 years ago from my love of science fiction, science fact, natural history and storytelling. A sculptural
series customizing preserved insect specimens with handmade and mechanical hardware from watches,
sewing machines, old gadgets, lighters, typewriters, etc. Each handmade work is a unique celebration of biology and engineering and design."
Mechanica by An imaginative field guide to the fantasy world of Mechanica creatures, with amazing and beautiful steampunk-inspired illustrations. In this field guide from the future, a dashing explorer-Miss Liberty Crisp-details amazing creatures known as Mechanica: human-created life forms designed to replace extinct species. Set in the twenty-third century, the book describes how Earth could no longer support wildlife. The warnings had been ignored. Corporations continued to expose the environment to chemical and radioactive waste, and many Earth species began to disappear. By 2200, vast areas of the world had become uninhabitable and wildlife extinct. In place of the lost wildlife species, the corporations began to create Mechanica. But the Mechanica escaped their confinement, and started to develop in the wild on their own. Filled with inventive and awe-inspiring images and details, this book is sure to spark readers' imaginations! Kids will marvel at the steampunk-inspired renderings of mechanical bugs, birds, bats, snakes, and more!
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Insects in Art
- MicrosculptureThe insect portraits of Levon Biss. From the collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
- Natalie McIntyre's Meticulous Beautiful Insect Drawings"Natalie McIntyre is a Cambridge-based artist who specialises in drawing insects. Her work is influenced by her interest in museum collections and her meticulous life-sized drawings of butterflies and beetles look as if they could be studies done by naturalists from earlier centuries. She also works in a more contemporary style; her recent work is larger-than-life ink drawings of close-ups of insects."
- Bugs: Beauty and Danger"Bugs, Beauty and Danger is GroundWork gallery’s latest exhibition. It is about insects, seen through visual art. But nothing about insects is straightforward. For a start, there are so many different kinds – winged, crawling, hard or soft-bodied, nocturnal or diurnal, invisible, harmful, or beneficial. Not even specialists know everything about their survival, their habits, or even the extent of our interdependence with them. As the public our feelings are mixed – we love and fear insects – but they are so often regarded as pests."
Anatomy of an Insect
Anatomy of an Insect
- Anatomy of an Insect"Species present in the Arthropod phylum have three legs (except Nymphalidae family) and do not have the internal skeleton system. Exoskeleton armour like shell protects their inner soft body ... "
- Basic Insect Morphology"Three parts of an insect: head, thorax, abdomen. Humans have a head, torso (similar to thorax) and abdomen. Spiders have a combination of head and thorax (cephalothorax) and abdomen ... "
- Insect Biolgoy"Insects are all related, they share a common ancestor at the base of their family tree. From this ancestor all insects inherited a basic anatomy and body plan. The diversity in form, and ultimately function, found in insects is a result of changes made to basic anatomical elements such as legs or mouthparts."