A while ago a group of children gently and carefully rescued a dying bumble bee and asked if I would put it into a drawing. Some time later I returned to the bee to find it had dried in a most peculiar pose and so I began this drawing. Out for a walk and holding a sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus), a strange creature encounters a buff-tailed bumble bee (bombus terrestris). Is the unidentified little animal carrying a knitting needle for safety, or is it an entomologist’s pin? All the element are shown 1:1 scale which I think enhances the drawing's specific oddity.