this mango ice cream is actually renowned local citizen Dolycoris baccarum, a teneral adult still lacking its wine color and just barely recognizable as a result. with the wings mostly unfurled and the empty molt nowhere to be found, the sensitive white boy stage seen here was probably not too recent and lasted only about half an hour longer, as i came back to check on it and found it fully pigmented
(July 3rd, 2025)

















