Need More Wildlife
  • Need More Wildlife
  • Founder & Artist
  • History
  • Need More Wildlife Series
    • 2014 >
      • Wild Goddess
      • Where They Belong
    • 2017 >
      • High Water Everywhere
      • SOLD/ What's the Buzz?
      • SOLD/Vanishing Jewel
      • Making Hay while the Sun Shines
      • Going to Bat for Bananas
      • SOLD/Gimme Shelter
      • House Burning Down
      • SOLD/Rust Never Sleeps
      • SOLD/Ten to One, Baby, One in Ten
      • Little Cow, Little Calf Blues
      • SOLD/Bee is for Blueberry
      • Thorn Forest
      • Ghost Visited by a Giant
      • SOLD/ Losing Nemo
      • SOLD / Alpine Apparition
      • Born on the Bayou
      • Possum up a Gum Tree
      • Pollinator in Repose
      • Lost Treasure
      • Possum up a Gum Tree Prototype
      • Seeing Ghosts in the Thicket Prototype
    • 2018 >
      • Chimphood
      • SOLD/ High Water Everywhere Part II
      • Cotton Fields Back Home
      • SOLD/ A Skeleton of its Former Self
      • Mother’s Little Helper
      • Seeing Ghosts in the Thicket
    • 2020 >
      • SOLD/ HAUNTED - HOUNDED - HUNTED
      • El sueño perdido de un pangolin en las nubes (The lost dream of a pangolin in the clouds)
      • Kala caminando por el bosque saludando una mariposa (Pangolin walking in the forest greeted by a butterfly)
      • SOLD/ Kala de la noche (Pangolin of the night)
      • SOLD/ The End Approaches The Beginning
      • SOLD/ Chameleon in the field at Moca
  • Commissions
    • 2019 >
      • Jumping for Joy Prototype
      • SOLD/ Jumping for Joy
    • 2020 >
      • SOLD/ Happy Birthday Christelle!
      • SOLD/ Rap, Rap, Rap
      • SOLD/ Sweet Nectar
      • SOLD/ Bubi Bells
  • Murals
    • 2020 >
      • Bioko Mural at Moca Wildlife Center
  • Secret Admirer Series
    • Resolution
    • Sanctuary
    • Lioness Licking Leo Prototype
  • Hand-Painted Ornaments
  • Teaching
  • What to buy in Wonderland
  • Follow Us Down the Rabbit Hole!
Picture

Ghost Visited by a Giant
2017

Species illustrated: Ghost Orchid (Dendrophylax lindenii) and Giant Sphinx Moth (Cocytius antaeus)
The Ghost Orchid is an endangered plant found in the swamps of South Florida. It is leafless and uses its roots for photosynthesis (producing sugars using the energy in sunlight). Causes of the decline of the Ghost Orchid include habitat destruction and human-induced changes in water flow, as well as over-collecting. The rare Giant Sphinx Moth is the only species of moth with a long enough proboscis (tongue) to pollinate this plant.

​20x24 oil on canvas
All sizes are measured in inches. All art is original.
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  • Need More Wildlife
  • Founder & Artist
  • History
  • Need More Wildlife Series
    • 2014 >
      • Wild Goddess
      • Where They Belong
    • 2017 >
      • High Water Everywhere
      • SOLD/ What's the Buzz?
      • SOLD/Vanishing Jewel
      • Making Hay while the Sun Shines
      • Going to Bat for Bananas
      • SOLD/Gimme Shelter
      • House Burning Down
      • SOLD/Rust Never Sleeps
      • SOLD/Ten to One, Baby, One in Ten
      • Little Cow, Little Calf Blues
      • SOLD/Bee is for Blueberry
      • Thorn Forest
      • Ghost Visited by a Giant
      • SOLD/ Losing Nemo
      • SOLD / Alpine Apparition
      • Born on the Bayou
      • Possum up a Gum Tree
      • Pollinator in Repose
      • Lost Treasure
      • Possum up a Gum Tree Prototype
      • Seeing Ghosts in the Thicket Prototype
    • 2018 >
      • Chimphood
      • SOLD/ High Water Everywhere Part II
      • Cotton Fields Back Home
      • SOLD/ A Skeleton of its Former Self
      • Mother’s Little Helper
      • Seeing Ghosts in the Thicket
    • 2020 >
      • SOLD/ HAUNTED - HOUNDED - HUNTED
      • El sueño perdido de un pangolin en las nubes (The lost dream of a pangolin in the clouds)
      • Kala caminando por el bosque saludando una mariposa (Pangolin walking in the forest greeted by a butterfly)
      • SOLD/ Kala de la noche (Pangolin of the night)
      • SOLD/ The End Approaches The Beginning
      • SOLD/ Chameleon in the field at Moca
  • Commissions
    • 2019 >
      • Jumping for Joy Prototype
      • SOLD/ Jumping for Joy
    • 2020 >
      • SOLD/ Happy Birthday Christelle!
      • SOLD/ Rap, Rap, Rap
      • SOLD/ Sweet Nectar
      • SOLD/ Bubi Bells
  • Murals
    • 2020 >
      • Bioko Mural at Moca Wildlife Center
  • Secret Admirer Series
    • Resolution
    • Sanctuary
    • Lioness Licking Leo Prototype
  • Hand-Painted Ornaments
  • Teaching
  • What to buy in Wonderland
  • Follow Us Down the Rabbit Hole!