Bug Holding by Loren Wilson. A large stick bug stands on a human hand.
A carpenter bee holds on to a finger.A spiky caterpillar crawls along fingertips. A small beetle rests on an index finger.
A striped beetle walks through arm hairs.A true bug stands on smooth skin.
A ladybug crawls from a leaf to a thumb.The ladybug sits atop a finger.
A caterpillar is held in the palm of a hand. Later, an empty chrysalis.The adult moth faces us, standing on the base of a thumb.
A hand guides the moth out of a cage.Sometimes I get really lucky and a bug will choose me to land on. Other times, I see a bug and I pick it up. And I hold it.
Bugs held from 2017-2022 in California, Arizona, and Connecticut.