Digital illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco, a dark brown sparrow with a pink beak, looking down from the background at a patch of red clover. The clover is covered in a variety of insects from Graham Montgomery's Ph.D work, including Harmonia axyridis (Asian ladybeetle), Scaptomyza terminalis (a small fly), Altica sp. flea beetles (tiny iridescent green beetles), Forcipata loca (pale yellow small leafhopper), Evacanthus interruptus (yellow and black leafhopper), and Anaspis rufa (small golden-brown false flower beetles).
I've never known if #BirdoftheDay is open to art but I guess I'll give it a go! If we're doing birds with flowers today, then I'll re-share this illustration of a Slate-colored Junco peering down on a landscape of red clover and the insects among it. #BirdArt #SciArt #Invertebrates