A lot of these are S**T YOU JUST POKED A BUNCH OF SSPIKES IN A BUNCH OF BUGS

These all look BEAUTIFUL! How long did it take you to make one? I love your art style with these ^^

Sharron lynn did you really comment on every pic?? lol

There is a great variety of art, nice to see something unique and so pretty !!!

Eeh the defense they desperately need is to NOT BE KILLED BY YOU! Ya doink!

Y’all do realize that cicadas literally all hatch at the same time and therefore die around the same time. Some of you complaining that the artist “killed or bought bugs that were killed”, I get your argument, but there’s also a good argument that these can be found dead by the hundreds when their life cycle ends. They bury themselves in larval form, and hibernate for years before all emerging by the thousands. It’s not a stretch to assume they die in the hundreds, thousands too.

Pins might stop birds from eating them, even though this is the natural order of things. Too bad they can do nothing about the decidedly UN-natural ACTUAL CAUSE of insect decline, like rampant insecticide use, waterways poisoned with mine runoff, glyphosate in all the flowers, military blowing up the earth on every continent, and the air full of toxic chemical gasses. Oh yes, and a huge wall on the north bank of an essential river. No amount of armor can save any of us from the ubiquitous waste produced by unbridled, unregulated, and essentially untaxed CORPORATIONS.

So the écosystem is killing them.. They are artifiied but really not relevant to self defense... Really. They are on a decline because of global warming and people manfocaturing and their life span... Not because they are being haunted. This is beautiful but also confusing and I need more clarity on this project. Have u used the art to collect funds for a certain charity to create awareness or u just called it that because it's the hipster thing to do?

I think the armor is too heavy for them to be ablo to fly, or if the female is waring the armong, the male wont be able to mate with her