Paper wasp 🐝 most species collect fibers from dead wood and plants and mix them with saliva to build papery nests. Away from human settlements they build nests in tree branches, but when they’re available, they love a nice sheltered roof eave, window frame, garage, etc.
[ID: a symmetrical illustration of a slim, yellow and black wasp, with skinny brown wings. It is on a dusty grey background with hexagon-shaped honeycomb patterns. End.]
This image is a photo of a an illustration. The illustration is of a fake magazine cover, where a black wasp with yellow stripes and brown wings fills most of the image. The wasp is clinging to a wall with its back facing the viewer, but its body twists left and its head is turned so one spotted brown eye gazes at the viewer. Its two pairs of back legs are stretched out on either side of it to grip the wall, while it holds its front pair bent close to its body. One leg gently grips one of its antenna in a preening pose. The wasp's brown, semi-translucent wings are held a relaxed distance up over its back toward the top of the image.
The wall forming the background represents a paper wasp nest and is off-white with a streaky, fibrous texture.
In large text across the top of the image is the magazine's title in tall, thin, colorful letters, "THE WEEKLY BUZZ". A subheader beneath the wasp written in matching script reads, "ART & ARCHITECTURE", and a subtitle beneath in smaller black letters reads, "Hue Hive Workers Construct In Color".
In the bottom right corner is a barcode with a orange label on top reading, "July 25 2022 www.buzzweb.com". /end ID]
id also in alt
watercolor, pen and marker
wouldn't it be cool if bugs made magazines? i was inspired by the super cool fake magazine covers people make of their characters sometimes (im looking at you, ratmags).
this was made for a set of art pieces with the theme: "how can bugs be depicted in a way in which people can sympathize with them without me having to alter their appearances/make them look 'cuter'?"
i focused a lot on posing, framing and settings to try to pull this off, which turned out to be pretty challenging! here, specifically, i chose to depict bugs in a media people are used to seeing humans in to make them more relateable.
@ridragon submitted: she was in my house by accident, so i grabbed a strawberry from the fridge and took a bite so she could smell the juice and offered it to her, she climbed on it and I took her outside! it was terrifying. but i did it! after a minute she felt comfortable enough to actually eat too, i think the walking outside was kinda scary for her.
Paper wasps can be quite chill! This one is VERY cute and I'm glad she was safely brought outside to enjoy her snack :)
A Friend I found today at work! 100% thought she was dead. She was not dead, so I put her outside instead of sweeping her up. I hope her winter quiescence was nice :)