Year of Wildlife - Week 14: BEETLE 🪲(How many? 😉)
"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realized that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality." - John Lennon
“When you do something noble & beautiful & nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle & yet most of the audience still sleeps.” – John Lennon
‘Live people ignore the strange & unusual.’ I myself am strange & unusual.” - Lydia Deetz
🎨 Digital Illustration
✨ Swipe for the inspirations
ALL🪲 FACTS:
1. There are 400,000 species of beetles, but only 8,000 species of mammals.
2. The life of a DUNG BEETLE evolves around dung balls - they consume them, lay their eggs in them, & feed their young with them - representing a cycle of rebirth.
3. They are secondary seed dispersers by distributing the seeds found in animal dung.
4. The SCARAB BEETLE is an important Egyptian symbol, in the form of a Dung Beetle, associated with the Egyptian God Khepri - a scarab-faced God who represents the rising sun, creation & the renewal of life.
5. LADYBUGS are actually beetles. They lay clusters of eggs with some lacking embryos which are used to feed the rest of young.
6. THE BEATLES were fans of Buddy Holly & The Crickets, & the idea of using an insect as a band name.
7. John Lennon loved puns, so he altered "Beetles" to "Beatles".
8. BEETLEJUICE was named after the Betelgeuse Star in the constellation Orion.
9. Betelguese is supposed to be the doorway to infinite blackness of outer space - a metaphor for Beetlejuice being the doorman to the Underworld.
10. Every country has their own name for the Volkswagon Beetle. France - Coccinelle (Ladybug). Italy - Maggiolino (Beetle). Bolivia - Peta (Turtle). Indonesia - Kodak (Frog).