Russian artist fashions tiny face masks for insects amid COVID outbreak

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It's 'A Bug's Life' in the time of coronavirus.

went under lockdown, Konenko has passed some of the time constructing face masks around the size of a grain of rice for his collection of preserved insects and animals, including a dragon fly and a tiny crab.

“It’s just I had the grasshopper,” Konenko said, reached by phone on Friday, while he was working a mask for a mosquito. “He was in my collection and so I decided to try to do it for him.”world’s smallest aquariumFor a time, he held the Guinness World Record for producing the world’s smallest book, an edition of Anton Chekhov’s short story,"Chameleon," which he made in 1996. The book was 0.9 millimeters by 0.

Konenko said he hoped his new insect works would encourage people to remember nature, at a time when the focus is on mankind.

 

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That's cuteeee 😍😛

This is news? More like fake news.

Russians on the Space Station Russian Artist ..........................but Trump.........🙄

Lamest thing possible in these times. And abc gives it time.

Congratulations ABC..... You’ve won the award for: “Dumbest Tweet of the day.” 🍻

Bet he didn't dress up a Murder Hornet, though did he?

i just wish he would cheer up.

And then the bug couldn't eat and died....

HERO!

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