Articles tagged with: beetle
Cory Doctorow mentioned my art on sale
in the Boing Boing Bazaar/Maker’s Market,
a online marketplace and collaboration between
the creators of MAKE and Boing Boing.
I’m selling paintings and prints.
A pause before launching into an ancient, ruined world,
the tiniest dragon has you where it wants you,
ravished, a bit chilled,
before you fall back to earth,
charred, warped, and forgotten.
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Soldier Beetle | Cantharidae
Searching for love in the grass,
a firefly’s beacon glows with cold fire.
Two restless Japanese beetles grapple and twist
in a silent chitinous mating dance.
A tiny high-wire act in a backyard circus,
burned by sun and swept by small breezes,
no nets in the microwilderness.
Dusk comes earlier, everyone around me seems more hurried, the end of summer is closer.
The firefly below is gone now, but it sparks memories of later sunsets, louder crickets and longer evenings.
A beetle watches the last rays of the sun disappear.
Another day ends in a wash of shadows on the banks of the Huron River.
This image also appears in my book of portraits from the microwilderness, Bug Dreams.
Looking for love on a hot summer night, a male firefly cruises above a green lawn searching for willing female. Any bets on his luck in the flash dance?
Summer’s here and fireflies are flickering in the fading twilight, lighting up the evenings. I’ve got some spectacular lightning bug images from 2008 and now this year, but I’m saving most of them for a book I have in development.
The firefly below is a male, caught in the instant before he launched himself into the air to show off his lighting skills in search of a mate.
Any other firefly sightings out there? Are their more fireflies this year than in the past, or less?
Almost too cute for its own good, a tiny soldier in the insect wars in my backyard microwilderness, this soldier beetle is related to fireflies, but cannot produce light.
They are useful in gardens, controlling many pest insects like aphids.
An ungainly and uncertain Japanese Beetle pauses, its back legs will soon swing high in alarm.
