Leith Hill Place is a NT property in a SSI in the Surrey Hills near Dorking. This is a mixed show with one room dedicated to BA and MA students from UCA. it goes on untill November 2024- open weekends and bank holidays.
My small creatures are 3 moths, a dragonfly and a demoiselle, a butterfly ( with its eggs, caterpillar and pupa) a stag beetle in wire, painted models of beetles and ladybirds, cloth models of a worm, a centipede, a milipede and a woodlouse. And a spider, an earwig some ants a slug and a snail all x5-10 life size... interesting to see the details
Look, Learn Love Protect- I want my tryptich to appeal to children so their parents will explain what its all about and why its important to look after our beleaguered insect world.
George Monbiot coined Insectageddon.... it can be seen in no splats on our windscreens, our meadows dont have the butterflies and grasshoppers they had. As David Atternborough said in Life in the Undergrowth “If we and the rest of the backboned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the land's ecosystems would collapse. The soil would lose its fertility. Many of the plants would no longer be pollinated. Lots of animals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals would have nothing to eat.”
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