Shield bug

Shield bug (2025) - National Insect Week Day 1

This week is national insect week, and I’m going try to post something new every day this week to celebrate. This is a drawing a shield bug (also known as a stink bug) that I saw hanging from some chicken wire upside down on the balcony of my hotel earlier this year in South Africa - I was there for a safari but I couldn’t help notice the I interesting insects I saw too

Struggled a bit this year to get any sort of momentum with my drawings for various reasons, but I’ve been off work for the last couple of week post hernia operation which has really helped me catch up on all the things I never really have time for (as well as recovering obviously, and somehow finishing reading 8 books!) I had planned a drawing based on my hernia to post on the day of the op but didn’t have the time… feel the time has passed on that now.

When I have a gap in drawing I always seem to turn to insects to get back into it, I don’t know why, but as I saw Insect week was coming up it seemed to make sense.

As ever, now available able from my Etsy shop as a print and cushion, t-shirts coming soon.

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