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wings or black growths sticking out of their eyes. Their
deformities almost made me sick. Many of the plants I
studied were not green but dark red, or the color of
their flowers had changed. In my hotel room I studied
the leaf bugs with my binocular microscope and made as
many watercolor sketches as possible to document my findings.
I was also struck by the despair of the local people
I met there because they could no longer eat what was
growing in their gardens. [
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Ticino, Switzerland
In the fall of 1987 I studied Heteroptera leaf bugs in the Ticino, which the
radioactive clouds from Chernobyl reached in early May 1986, and which washed
out during heavy rains. At the beginning of May 1986, the first generation of
leaf bugs was in
its larval
state; these larvae sucked liquid |
Picture:
Drosophila melanogaster
The left wing is a little clump
Watercolor, Zürich 1987 |
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