Here’s a precursor to the film Naked Lunch, in which Judy Davis injects herself with enough insecticide that her very breath kills bugs. From Life, 1900.
Some very weird vintage insects are collected here.
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HERKYNA, (or Hercyna) was the Naiad Nymph of the stream Herkyna near Lebadeia in Boiotia (central Greece). She was a childhood companion of Persephone, and a goddess of the chthonian shrine of Trophonios.