Pests of Public Importance

Two horizontal black bands, each filled with a repeating rank of white-outlined mosquitoes shown from above with wings outstretched and legs splayed, flanked at the left and right edges by a pair of vertical larva figures; between and around these bands run narrower horizontal registers of a repeating white palmette-and-bud motif and a white meander (key) pattern, both printed in dark red-brown on the cream paper ground. The overall design reads as a classical ornamental border pattern reworked with insect motifs, laid out in symmetrical, mirrored repeats across the full width of the sheet. April Vollmer, "Pests of Public Importance," 2017, mokuhanga.