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Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios (USA, 1909-1968)

Low, Low Tide, 1962

(Folly Cove Designers collection)

Ink on cotton

so far the following is good

50s/60s/70s/80s russia

70s cambodia

20s japan

80s ethiopia

actually im willing to bet 70s *any country will be amazing, it’s all been really good so far

I always say this lovingly, of course

Idolothrips spectrum (I couldn't find much information on these so I'm not sure whether that spectrum refers to them being variable but none of the others seem to look as strange as this one. Not sure if there's something else going on there) and lepidopsocid

Ophiotettix limosina and phaneropterine

Perola sericea and Melittia sp.

Selandriine and Ghilianella sp.

Holoptilus sp. and Pseudocephalelus bleusei

Chaetochlorops inquilinus and Calodromus sp.

Moluris globulicollis (aka the globeneck globe toktokkie because I can't just leave that name out) and Phycosoma oecobioides

Herdoniine and Cazira verrucosa

Tereticepheus sp. and Moegistorhynchus longirostris

Charistica rhodopetala (there's a gif I can't add here but please watch it) and Tetraglenes hirticornis

Ordgarius magnificus and Papirioides jacobsoni

Exechesops sp. (some have even goofier eyes than this) and Oraesia excavata

Necrophylus arenarius and Mosu sp.

Pachycnema calviniana and Palmipenna aeoleoptera