Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) flower pattern I like its simplicity

I like its simplicity

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Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) flower pattern I like its simplicityAt first I thought perhaps this was meant to be a cicada, but now I think maybe a long tongued fly; really, that long spiral out front is like the rolled tongue of a butterfly, or that of a salamander! Whatever the case, quite a wonderful bug it is, I think, composed of what looks to me a combination of iron, steel and copper wire creatively and dexterously welded together, with a lovely delicacy that comes especially from the treatment of the wings,