Awareness Poster: An Existential Threat

 

"Slaughter Season Is Upon Us"

My final poster is on the growing issue of giant asian murder hornets in the northwest, meant to be eye-catching (especially with regards to the typography) and easy to grasp quickly. I used a colony of dead bees for the backdrop, with a dying bush and wasp nest in the midground, plus withering flowers, a queen murder hornet, her crown, her sceptor, and a giant murder hornet face in the foreground. All the plants are made to look like they're dying, a horrifying potential consequence of a world devoid of bees. Without them, everything falls apart.  

I very much say what I mean and mean what I say in this piece--the honeybee needs us, and we need it. The time has come for war on this menacing invasive species. If we can't root it out in five years' time, scientists don't think we'll ever be able to purge them.

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