Background Information about Carving Insects

How sussed have they got it? Take the wood louse for instance, it has been about for hundreds of thousands of years, unchanged. It reached a point in its evolution, where it thought "that'll do", it scavenges on waste, in its armoured shell, carrying its eggs beneath, all angles covered there then. Happy scuttling about in the dirt and the dark, eating and breeding, what a life - no council tax, bills, VAT, insurance or overdrafts - and we think we've got it better than the "lowly" wood louse?

This collection of insects was carved from a quartered Oak stump, with an old wound, on the open day at Isca Hardwoods near Cwmfelinfach, in early autumn 2005. The Beetle seen through the opening of the wound, a clue to "what hides behind".

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