People Science & Society

Insect illustrator

By Roberta Kwok

- More than 2 years ago

For 10 years, Taina Litwak’s job was to draw almost nothing but mosquitoes. As a science illustrator in Washington, D.C., for the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Litwak helped document disease-transmitting species that might endanger soldiers overseas.

Litwak won an award for this illustration of the beetle Elaphidion costipenne, a long-horned, wood-boring species from the Caribbean.