Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Snout Beetle aka Weevil

snout beetle

horse fly

stag beetle
From the family of coleoptera and diptera.

16 comments:

  1. Anne BAugust 31, 2011 at 11:09 AM

    How do you come up with these amazing creatures? Totally unique and lovely.

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  2. Sarah MellingAugust 31, 2011 at 2:14 PM

    I love your beautiful, fanciful insects...really unique and gorgeous!

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  3. The Giraffe Head TreeAugust 31, 2011 at 2:37 PM

    These are the cutest creatures I've ever seen! You blow me away!

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  4. holly aka gollyAugust 31, 2011 at 3:13 PM

    thank you all! I was inspired by my recent visit to the Harvard collection.

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  5. LuluAugust 31, 2011 at 3:48 PM

    Love the Weevil's! May they fly away soon, before I have one for dinner!

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  6. lamina @ do a bitAugust 31, 2011 at 3:57 PM

    WOW... They are just beautiful... such detail... Gorgeous!

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  7. UnknownAugust 31, 2011 at 4:09 PM

    Oh, these are awesome.

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  8. Kelly LahlSeptember 1, 2011 at 9:18 AM

    I love your work, Holly! I was recently at Chicago's Field Museum and they had the most wonderful watercolors of insects, drawn from their collection. The artist-in-residence, Peggy Macnamara, has been their artist for 20 years. What a fun job that would be.

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  9. Linda EllettSeptember 1, 2011 at 9:29 AM

    Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!!

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  10. Linda EllettSeptember 1, 2011 at 9:34 AM

    I meant to add that when we dropped our son back to school at Cornell there was an amazing display of gigantic photos of weevils called "Fear no weevil" - it's here if you want to peek -

    http://mannlib.cornell.edu/news/slideshows/fear-no-weevil

    Love your work!
    Linda

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  11. holly aka gollySeptember 1, 2011 at 11:09 AM

    Kelly: what an amazing job that would be!

    Linda: fear no weevil! that's hilarious. Will take a peek.

    Have a great day!

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  12. helicopter6September 2, 2011 at 12:55 AM

    These are a truly beautiful set Holly. I do love an insect. I've been wanting to buy one of your works forever... so I think I'm just going to march right on over to your Etsy shop now and ensure the Snout Beetle makes it my way! Hooray!

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  13. holly aka gollySeptember 2, 2011 at 6:46 AM

    Helen: My little weevil would be so happy to find a home with you!

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  14. Carol CreechSeptember 5, 2011 at 3:01 PM

    Beautiful and so colorful! I love these.
    Carol

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  15. denise nestorSeptember 5, 2011 at 3:19 PM

    these are amazing holly. I especially love the green one.

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  16. UnknownSeptember 22, 2011 at 4:56 AM

    Geniales, tienes una obra impresionante, muy creativa, original. :)
    Me encantan tanto la fauna como la flora.
    Un saludo
    :)

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