The challenge was to make buggy designs based on various people’s characters and have them be a) recognizable and b) visually distinctive while c) using as few human traits as possible. None of that Antz stuff, y’know?
A Northern Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus)
that I found in the ladies’ bathroom at Myles Standish State Forest. Yep,
that was me, kneeling on the floor in the ladies’ bathroom with a macro
setup…
The Apollo Metalmark is a butterfly of the Riodinidae family, Riodininae subfamily, tribe Riodinini. The wingspan of Lyropteryx apollonia
is about 35–43 mm. Upper surface of the wings is
black, with numerous longitudinal streaks of metallic blue-green colours
on the outer half. The undersides are black, with the basal half
spotted with purple-pink and the outer half with black and white
stripes. This rare species is widespread in the tropical areas of the South America, particularly in Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. It can be found in tropical rainforests forests, at an elevation of about 200–600 m.
