Things Spiderwrangler has arted
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 9:11 am
Thought I'd make a thread to contain the various things I've drawn and posted at some point.
This is a "Wheel Bug", Arilus cristatus, which is a true bug that feeds by stabbing its prey with the pointy beak. It is stippled (my favorite art style to do), and based on a pinned specimen I have in my collection. This is one of the few insect drawings that I did just for fun, though I ended up using it as the cover of the lab manual when I taught a general entomology course.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/i7Hsu ... 59-h434-no[/thumbnail]
Not sure on the species of this guy, but it and a bunch of its siblings were parasitizing a cabbage moth cocoon. This was drawn as part of an Insect Morphology course I took, all the drawing was done looking through microscopes to see enough detail. This is the stippled version of the head, which should give you an idea of just how tiny this little wasp is, as the scale bar in the lower right is 0.25mm.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d7ui6 ... 48-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The pencil sketch upon which the stippled head was based.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rIw2E ... 58-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The thorax of the parasitic wasp.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/n7Ixj ... 34-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The abdomen.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DzP7X ... 58-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The forewing. Compared to bigger wasp wings, they venation is extremely reduced in this species, as it is for many tiny wasps, they don't require the same structural support to maintain flight.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4AL92 ... 30-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The hindwing. The hooks in the leading edge latch onto the hind margin of the forewing to lock the two together during flight.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2t2P7 ... 58-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The female reproductive structures. The long bits are what make up the ovipositor (the stinger of some bees and wasps), whose primary function is depositing eggs. In the case of this wasp, it deposits them in the caterpillars of the cabbage white butterfly.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/JenQm ... 55-h643-no[/thumbnail]
This is a "Wheel Bug", Arilus cristatus, which is a true bug that feeds by stabbing its prey with the pointy beak. It is stippled (my favorite art style to do), and based on a pinned specimen I have in my collection. This is one of the few insect drawings that I did just for fun, though I ended up using it as the cover of the lab manual when I taught a general entomology course.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/i7Hsu ... 59-h434-no[/thumbnail]
Not sure on the species of this guy, but it and a bunch of its siblings were parasitizing a cabbage moth cocoon. This was drawn as part of an Insect Morphology course I took, all the drawing was done looking through microscopes to see enough detail. This is the stippled version of the head, which should give you an idea of just how tiny this little wasp is, as the scale bar in the lower right is 0.25mm.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d7ui6 ... 48-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The pencil sketch upon which the stippled head was based.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rIw2E ... 58-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The thorax of the parasitic wasp.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/n7Ixj ... 34-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The abdomen.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DzP7X ... 58-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The forewing. Compared to bigger wasp wings, they venation is extremely reduced in this species, as it is for many tiny wasps, they don't require the same structural support to maintain flight.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4AL92 ... 30-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The hindwing. The hooks in the leading edge latch onto the hind margin of the forewing to lock the two together during flight.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2t2P7 ... 58-h643-no[/thumbnail]
The female reproductive structures. The long bits are what make up the ovipositor (the stinger of some bees and wasps), whose primary function is depositing eggs. In the case of this wasp, it deposits them in the caterpillars of the cabbage white butterfly.
[thumbnail]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/JenQm ... 55-h643-no[/thumbnail]