I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs (2014)

Nineteen years earlier, I had first drawn malformed and mutated flies while working in the zoological department at the University of Zurich as a scientific illustrator. Now I didn’t have to ask scientists in the laboratory to give me particular insects or flies—I could go and find them myself.1

Painting bugs is a personal exercise for me. This was contrary to the scientific opinion of the time, but consistent with some independent research.2 In the southern part of Switzerland, which was highly irradiated by Chernobyl, I collected three pairs of Drosophila melanogaster flies and bred them in my kitchen with the same food that we used to use in the university.

Source: nautil.us