VALENTINA GALLUP SALERNI

Asclepias Syriaca, Common milkweed, Watercolor on paper,


Native Neighbors is an ongoing series of watercolor illustrations celebrating native plants, created for Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy and used in their educational programming.

Ink and Watercolor, 2017-present


Important generalist pollinators of wildflowers and spring blooming garden flowers. Because of their small size, they are able to enter the small mouthed flowers not accessible by larger bees. They vibrate flight muscles in order to shake pollen from flow
Hoverfly. pencil, ink and watercolor on paper
Known by scientists as Danaus Plexippus, meaning ‘sleepy transformation’ noting the species ability to hibernate and metamorphize. Every year these butterflies travel between 1200 to 2800 miles from their breeding grounds in the United States and Canada a
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