Insect Mouthpart Categories
by Bobby Long
title
Insect Mouthpart Categories
agency
NearsightGraphite
Submission by
Bobby Long
Project Lead
Bobby Long: NearsightGraphite / Bobby Long: NearsightGraphite
Contributors
Bill Plant, Museum Director Shiloe Fontes, Exhibit Designer
The Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium of Tucson, AZ commissioned a suite of illustrations depicting the four main categories of insect mouthparts for the Wild World of Bugs exhibit (running 2021 to present). To visualize the accompanying explanations of their specialized feeding tools and diets in the “Bug Bistro” area, I drew a generalized representative for each major evolutionary category:
• Chewing — Ant
• Lapping — Housefly.
• Siphoning — Butterfly.
• Piercing — Mosquito.
Graphite and digital color. Each approx 12”x12”