Insects and Spiders

Childeric golden bees (Apis) are rendered in a 2026 digital illustration by Gina. Unearthed in 1653 at Tournai, in the tomb of a fifth-century Frankish ruler, the ornaments had red garnet wings and gold bodies, and later inspired an imperial bee emblem. Two views of the ornaments show beaded edges, ridged bodies and tiny faces on a plain white ground.