Insects have found uses in art, as in other aspects of culture, both symbolically and physically, from ancient times. Artforms include the direct usage...

animal species. The insect nervous system consists of a brain and a ventral nerve cord. Most insects reproduce by laying eggs. Insects breathe air through...

Insects have appeared in mythology around the world from ancient times. Among the insect groups featuring in myths are the bee, fly, butterfly, cicada...

interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and...

1960s as well as graphic designs based on insects have also appeared. Many stamps also feature butterflies. Insects only started to appear on stamps much...

wings outstretched like a pendant from her throat. She is surrounded by insects and animals, setting the scene of a lush, but suffocatingly dense jungle...

first time in art and architecture in this work. The iconography of the memento mori theme symbolised in art by the skull was rather popular in Rome and...

Haarlem in 1588–1590. It measures 239 × 307 cm (94 × 121 in). The work is in the collection of the Statens Museum (the national art gallery) in Copenhagen...

perfect in music and colour the sense and spirit of his work." The painting became part the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum collection in 1945, after...

central profile head, on its mouth, is a grasshopper, an insect Dali referred to several times in his writings. Unlike real grasshoppers, it seems to be...

checkered pattern, which then becomes tessellations of reptiles, a honeycomb, insects, fish, birds and a pattern of three-dimensional blocks with red tops. These...

Japanese culture, insects have occupied an important role as aesthetic, allegorical, and symbolic objects.: 185  In addition, insects have had a historical...

microbes in the insect gut and feed substrate, disease management, making use of the short life cycle of insects to select efficient strains of insects and...

Butterflies are found in art and literature, often as symbols of freedom, transformation and life. Van Gogh used butterflies in his works as a symbol...

trompe-l'œil artifices were not novel to Italian art, since for example Mantegna and Giulio Romano in Mantua had featured such frescoes; however, for Cortona...

Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, The Blind Girl Sympathy and Vividness in Millais' The Blind Girl The Victorian Web: Combining Details and Mood in The Blind Girl...

been subject to various interpretations by art historians. James N. Hogue, writing in the Encyclopedia of Insects, lists the following reasons behind musca...

Songs of Experience in 1794. Little Fly Thy summers play, My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me...

Escher created during 1967 and 1968. Measuring 19 cm × 680 cm (7+1⁄2 in × 22 ft 3+1⁄2 in), this is Escher's largest print. It was printed on thirty-three...

resurrection. Above the pomegranate flies a bee, an insect that traditionally symbolizes the Virgin. In the upper left of the painting what seems to be a...

Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder...

as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or...

at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received...

appropriated for the national art collection in September 1798 during the French occupation for the National Kunst Galerie in the Hague, from the collections...

Beetlewing, or beetlewing art, is an ancient craft technique using iridescent beetle wings practiced traditionally in Thailand, Myanmar, India, China...

Insect Festival is a biennial series of one day events in the UK, organised by the Royal Entomological Society, to celebrate insects and entomology. The...

and dried. The insect produces carminic acid that deters predation by other insects. Carminic acid, typically 17–24% of dried insects' weight, can be...

cockroach cartoon controversy occurred in response to a cartoon drawn by cartoonist Mana Neyestani and published in the Iranian Friday-magazine Iran-e-jomee...

Cucaracha" which is about a cockroach. Insect groups mentioned include bees, ants, flies and the various singing insects such as cicadas, crickets, and beetles...

Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. This work is on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. A Reynolds Morse. This work of surrealistic art showcases...