The Alien Beauty and Creepy Fascination of Insect Art

“They don’t live like us. They don’t look like us. They do the things that we do in such bizarre and wild ways that it’s just endlessly intriguing,” says artist Catherine Chalmers. “They offer a very, very different perspective on life on Earth.”

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Cochineal scale insects being collected from a prickly pear in Central America. Illustration by José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, 1777

José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez (1737 – 1799)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons