Acrylic gouache, ink, sawdust

Adrienne is an entomologist with a particular fascination for insect–plant interactions.

Clavicoccus erinaceus is an extinct mealybug known only from five specimens collected in 1933. Its host plant was Abutilon sandwicense, an endangered mallow restricted to the Waiʻanae Mountains on Oʻahu. The mealybug would have had a beautiful view looking upward into the green and pink bell-shaped flowers.