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Ele Willoughby, PhD

For prompt “favourite” & the last day of is the pollinators’ favourite: the ridiculously titled “My milkweed brings all the bugs to my yard”

This linocut print is about the milkweed plant, beloved of the native pollinators. Well-known for its appeal to monarch butterflies, it is also a favourite of the many different native bumblebees & insects like this small milkweed bug. 🧵1/2

Linocut print on ivory Japanese washi paper, 9.25” x 12.5”, displayed on white square, of “My milkweed brings all the bugs to the yard”. It shows a milkweed plant with stem and leaves printed in blue-green on yellow-green, with two round blooms full of florets printed in pale mauve on pale pink. On a leaf is a milkweed beetle in black on red. Above one bloom is a bumblebee in black and yellow and above the other is a monarch butterfly in pale and dark orange, white and black.
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Sep 03, 2023, 11:44 AM·Public
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

There are also many other insects whose very name comes from the milkweed plant which I haven’t included (like the large milkweed bug, the false milkweed bug, milkweed leaf beetles, milkweed longhorned beetles and milkweed tussock moth). To get the colour of the stem, leaves, blooms, butterfly, bug and bumblebee, I have collaged various lovely, handmade, Japanese papers. This print is part of a a variable edition. Each print is 12.5” tall by 9.25” wide.

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