date and place of creation

September 2015

Musée des Beaux-Arts

During the cadre du Bel Air Claviers Festival

[Chambéry]


composition

1 harmonium

1 piano

1 double bass (neck)

1 metronome

common name

Dock bug


identity

The dock bug is a brown piercing and sucking insect.

size

Approx. 1.5 cm when adult


habitat

It lives close to water in hedgerows, on the edge of woods and in wet grasslands.

diet

Its diet consists of docks and sorrels. it uses its stylets to pierce plants, leaves and seeds, and sucks out their sap. it has been known to pierce squashes, damaging vegetable patches.