Post by entoman on Aug 20, 2011 20:11:09 GMT -8
I believe that this topic has been discussed before on the old forum, but I thought that I'd share a couple of interesting misrepresentations of insects I've noticed recently.
The first was a blue morpho used in an advertisement for printer ink. At first glance it looked normal but it quickly became apparent that it had been "touched-up". The picture was a side view and apparently the add-execs had decided that the outside of the morpho's wings looked best when they were the same metallic blue as the inside of the wings.
The second was a picture of a monarch (possibly viceroy, I saw this one at a distance) on the van of a lawn care service. It was completely normal except for the back edges of the hind wings which had been edited out and replaced with those of a swallowtail, complete with tails.
Anyhow, I found both of these fairly amusing, though somewhat disconcerting considering that Joe person accepts these pictures at face value not knowing any better and probably never know any better.
Any other interesting tails of pop-culture insect depictions?
The first was a blue morpho used in an advertisement for printer ink. At first glance it looked normal but it quickly became apparent that it had been "touched-up". The picture was a side view and apparently the add-execs had decided that the outside of the morpho's wings looked best when they were the same metallic blue as the inside of the wings.
The second was a picture of a monarch (possibly viceroy, I saw this one at a distance) on the van of a lawn care service. It was completely normal except for the back edges of the hind wings which had been edited out and replaced with those of a swallowtail, complete with tails.
Anyhow, I found both of these fairly amusing, though somewhat disconcerting considering that Joe person accepts these pictures at face value not knowing any better and probably never know any better.
Any other interesting tails of pop-culture insect depictions?
