Moth – Garden Tiger Moth (Arctia caja)

Bold enough to advertise and toxic enough to back it up, the Garden Tiger Moth (Arctia caja) combines vivid orange hindwings with a dense black-and-white forewing pattern that varies so much between individuals that no two are quite alike. Widespread across the temperate Palearctic and into North America, its populations have declined sharply in warmer lowland regions over recent decades.

Famed for its bright warning colours and dramatic defence, the Garden Tiger flashes its orange hindwings when threatened to startle predators, while its body fluids carry toxins absorbed from larval food plants. The caterpillars, known as “woolly bears,” are easily recognised by their dense brown hairs and wide-ranging appetite for wild and garden plants. They overwinter as larvae, pupate in spring, and emerge as adults in midsummer, often drawn to light on warm nights.

This print captures the species’ vivid patterns and natural poise in clean, contemporary form — a celebration of one of the most spectacular moths of temperate regions, and a reminder of its importance to both art and ecology.

Bugs is a collection of natural history illustration prints drawn from the insect world - beetles, flies, bugs, butterflies, and moths selected for the strangeness, beauty, and variety of their forms.

Each illustration is adapted from Simon Tyler's book Bugs, published by Pavilion in 2017 and subsequently published in French and Chinese. The series draws on the tradition of scientific natural history illustration - precise, considered, and attentive to the details that make each species distinctive.

Insects account for the majority of all known animal species on Earth. This collection is a small survey of what that diversity looks like.

All prints are produced to order on 250gsm archival matte paper using pigment-based inks, chosen for colour accuracy and long-term stability.

Each print is rolled in acid-free tissue and shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, sealed for moisture protection, ready for framing on arrival.

Large · 70 × 50 cm · 28 × 20 in

XLarge · 100 × 70 cm · 40 × 28 in

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