Ten-lined June beetle up to 2 inches with 3 pairs of legs, with a white body and brown head. The larval stage can last as long as 4 years. Ten-lined June beetle The ten-lined June beetle ("Polyphylla decemlineata"), also known as the watermelon beetle, is a scarab beetle, living in the western United States and Canada. The adults are attracted to light and feed on foliage. They can make a hissing sound when touched or otherwise disturbed, which can resemble the hissing of a bat. This sound is made by their wings pushing down, forcing the air out between their wings and back.
Soldier at a Game of Chess échecs" ("Soldier at a Game of Chess") from the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago to Lodève. For the occasion of an exhibition titled "Imaging/Imagining the Human Body in Anatomical Representation", March 25 – June 20, 2014 at the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, "Soldier at a Game of Chess" was exhibited alongside an X-ray composite based on Metzinger's painting. The aim of the exhibition was to reveal the interdependence between representations of human anatomy through biomedicine's imaging technology and imaginings in the creative art's.<ref name="Imaging/Imagining">Imaging/Imagining the Human Body in Anatomical Representation, The University of Chicago, Smart