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from contaminated leaves
as their food. At Mendrisiotto I found disturbed leaf
bugs and deformed plants, which I collected and painted.
In Rancate I collected three pairs of Drosophila melanogaster
flies, which I bred in my kitchen up to the fourth generation.
With the binocular microscope I studied and protocolled
them. I found the greatest number of deformities on their
abdomens, wings, eyes and faces. [
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Chernobyl
In 1990 I traveled with the anti-nuclear group Strom ohne Atom (Electricity without
atomic power) to the Ukraine. The misery of the people there made a great impression
upon me. At the port to the south of the 30-kilometer exclusion zone, I collected
firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus. In Pripjat, the city most hit by the fallout and
as silent as death itself, we were allowed to |
Picture:
Soft bug from Pripjat, Ukraine
Right side middle leg is short with no foot but two claws
Watercolor, Kiev and Zürich 1990 |
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