Preparational workin my youth

The first watercolour was created during training as a scientific illustrator, a house mouse from the Zoological Institute of theUniversity of Zurichwatercolour, Zurich 1961

Inversion of thechromosome of a fruit fly(Drosophila subobscura)pen-and-ink drawing,Zurich 1961

Weaverbird, Zoollogical Museum of the University of Zurich, watercolour 1962

Created during my training at the Ecole
Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris

Lithograph on the basis of a silhouette
Paris 1964

Scorpionfish (scorpaenidae), Zoo Zurich, watercolour 1964

Biocenosis, animals and plantscohabiting in 20 m depth in theMediterranean. Corals, gymnosperms,worms and algae
watercolour
Banyuls sur mer 1964

Aquarium Noumea, New Caledonia, Nov. 18th/19th 1969

Heads of fruit fly (Drosophila subobscura),mutant ‘quasimodo’, mutated with the poison
EMS in the feed. Sketched according to the flies
which i had to sketch on behalf of Prof. Hans
Burla
Drawing, University of Zurich 1967

A'&*!-#B-B$/)2-B3C-DE$#!#%0)3&-!/F#F!"/$&+,-3'B2-!)*'G-:/2&(2-!"#$%&'('B$#:-20'-.##3#H)"&3-I(!2)2/2'-#B-20'-J()='$!)2C-#B-./$)"01&2'$"#3#/$,-./$)"0-456K

Children, victims ofthe Vietnam War1959 - 1975
from Tu Du Hospitalin Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam

FotoCornelia HesseHonegger 2004

Children, victims of the Vietnam War 1959 – 1975, form Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
Foto: Cornelia Hesse-Honegger 2004

Vietnamese child and two bugs,
Victims of the spray operations of the USA
during the Vietnam War 1962 - 1971

Monographs of the various
drosophilidae and leucophenga
families. Important pictures whichfacilitated a taxonomic analysis.

Leucophenga fly, head and abdomen
for the Zoological Institute of theUniversity of Zurich

Source:Dr. Gerhard Bächli, Leucophenga undParaleucophenga (Diptera)
Brachycera)
Exploration du Parc National del‘Upemby, Fondation pour favoriser les
recherches scinetifiques en Afrique,
Mission G. F. De Witte , Bruxelles 1971

pen-and-ink drawing, Zurich 1970

E9$.+()$*-'C$&()$+$(C#),"#0$4-1-2'+?"$+@-/)$1+)&8#$C&10($-%$0'-(-?"&.+$%.&#($%-'$)"#$5--.-2&,+.$
61()&)/)#$-%$)"#$71&8#'(&)9$-%$5/'&,">'-(-?"&.+$%/1#@'&(3$>'-(-?"&.+$4#.+1-2+()#'3$>'-(-?"&.+$(/@-@(,/'+$3$>'-(-?"&.+$-@(,/'+I-/,#\]#'"+'0$K^,".&$+10$S+1($K/'.+3$>'-(-?"&.&0+#3$>&?)#'+3$61(#,)+$
S#.8#)&,+3$:;_Y*+)#',-.-/'3$5/'&,"$:;_PBeginning of the works
with bugs

1969K/2$%'-4$D&)&C-1$*+)#',-.-/'3$ 5/'&,"$:;W`61$:;<_$6$0'+*#0$ 49$%&'()$@/2$=S#)#'-?)#'+A$ +10$"+8#$()+9#0$*&)"$)"#(#$%+(,&1+)&12$&1(#,)($(&1,#$)"#1R$$!"#$(944#)'9$-%$)"#(#$+1&4+.($%+(,&1+)#0$4#R$!-$#4?"+(&a#$)"#$(944#)'93$6$-4&))#0$$+$?+')$-%$)"#$'&2")$*&12RI,/)#../4$+10$*&12($-%$+$E&'&0+#$=(-%)$@/2A3$G'#41-,#?"+./(*+)#',-.-/'3$]-,C"+/(#1:;W_Miridae Pilophorus from
Canton of Ticino,
Switzerland,

watercolour Gockhausen,
1980

Scutellum and wings of aMiridae (soft bug),unknown tome, from the surroundings ofZurichwatercolour, GockhausenParts of the wings and scutellums of bugs from Gockhausen, watercolour 1977

51 various fly backs, watercolour Gockhausen Zurich 1985

House fly,musca domestica from the laboratory of
the Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich,mutant aristapedia, watercolour, Zurich 1985

Chernobyl Accident 1986
contaminating
Sweden and Tichino

Map of the radioactive
contamination inEurope, caused by theaccident in Chernobylon April 26th 1986

The first study area inSweden

Heads of two damsel bugs fromGysinge, Sweden
The left one is normal. The head of
the right one is too dark, the feelers
are sausage-shaped and one ofthem grows out from the rim of theright eye.
watercolour
Zurich, September 1987

Clover from Gysinge, Sweden
Reddish-brown clover instead ofgreen, with yellow flowers
instead of pinkwatercolour, Gysinge, July 1987

Soft bug (Maridae) larva fromÖsterfärnebo Sweden
Divided wings on the left side. They
should be in a small pack like on theright side.

watercolour
Gysinge, July 31st 1987

Map of radioactive
fallout of Cs-137
in Switzerland fromthe Chernobyl
accident on April 26th1986

Study areas
Bormio andTubreItaly
Val Mustair CH
1992 - 1995

Mendrisiotto1987
and 1988

Homoptera (spittlebug),
Cercopis vulnerata, foundon May 3rd 1988 inMendrisio, Ticino

A leg stump grows out of
the joint of the left middle
leg.
watercolour
Zurich, May 1988

Fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, 2nd generation, parents from Rancate Tichino, hatched out in my kitchen.
The left wing is just a lump.
watercolour, Zurich 1987

Head and abdomen offruit fly, Drosophilamelanogaster, 3rd
generation of theparents from Rancate,
Mendrisiotto, hatchedout in October 1987

The segments of theabdomen are misaligned.
The face is damaged,
with eyes of different
sizes, deformedantennae, carina andcheeks. Curved
whiskers

watercolour, Zurich
November 1987

Title page of the Tages –Anzeiger Magazin
January 1988

Upper: deformed head of afruit fly, Drosophilamelanogaster,Lower: deformed abdomen of a
Drosophila melanogasterwatercolour
Zurich 1987

Nuclear Powr Plants inSwitzerland

1988 - 1995

The beginning ofthe collecting ofinsects in thesurroundings ofthe NPP Gösgen,
Switzerland

Dragon fly, Panorpa
communis from Reuenthal,
Canton of Aargau, near theNPP Leibstadt

The right wings are
deformed and the abdomen
looks blown up.

warercolour, Zurich 1988

Soft bug, Miridae from thevicinity of the NPP Gösgen,Canton of Aargau,
Switzerland
The right wing is shorter
than the left one.

watercolour
Zurich, August 1988

Pentatomidae, Graphosoma
lineatum (tree bug) from thevicinity of the NPP Gösgen,Canton of Aargau
Switzerland, found on August
16th 1994 in RohrThe left side of the thorax isshorter.

watercolour
Zurich, 1995

Squashu bug fromWindisch, near he NPP
Gösgen, Canton ofAargau Switzerland
The right wing andabdomen aredamaged.

watercolour
Zurich, August 1997

Distribution of the damage rates of the 40 positions in the Canton of Aargau Switzerland, where there are 4
NPPs and the Paul Scherrer Institute for reactor research, in correlation with the wind frequencies.
10% of the wind frequencies have benn fixed on 10 km.

833-#B-20'-:#$%0#3#H)"&3-*&:&H'!-#B-H$#/%-P,-B#/(*-#(-20'-$/FF3'-0)33-&2-20'-Q&/3-O"0'$$'$-I(!2)2/2'-455L,-R':%'$&-#(-&-H$&%0 %&%'$-7K-S-6K,L-":,./$)"0-455LT&$)#/!-F#*C- %&$2!-*$&1(-1)20-=&$)#/!-"#3#/$!-!0#1-20'-*&:&H'!GU)H02-$'*-B#$-1)(H-*&:&H'!,-C'33#1-B#$-!"/2'33/:-*&:&H'!,-H$''(-B#$-B''3'$-*&:&H'!,-&-V#)(2-:)!!)(H-B#$-F#20-2$''-F/H!>--E&$M $'*-B#$-&F*#:'(*&:&H'!
U#1'$G-;/:F'$-#B--20'-F/H!-B#/(*>-4-!9/&$'2-W-4-F/H>-R0'-10)2'-B)'3*!-!0#1-10)2'-#$-H$'C-3&C'$!-#(-20'-1)(H!>Sellafield

1989The right wing of theladybug (ladybird beetle)
from the area near thereprocessing plant
Sellafield is dented withdark stains.
watercolour 1989

Two soft bugs, Miridae, from
Seascale and Drigg, near
the reprocessing plant
Sellafield, Cumbria England
The bug on the left side has
a brown stain on the thorax
which has slightly pulled inthe thorax. The bug on theright side has an ulcer at thebase of the right feeler.

watercolour 1989

Chernobyl

1990

The map shows the30 km safety zone
around the damaged
reactor Chernobyl in
November 1986 andmy study areas inAugust 1990.

ChernobylPripjat 1999

Soft bug, Maridae, fromPripjat, found on August
13th 1990
The middle leg on theright side is damaged
and the claw grows out
from the leg stump
directly.

watercolour
Kiev, Zurich, 1990

Fire bug, Pyrrhocoridae, fromthe south portal of the 30 kmzone around Chernobyl,
Seljony Mys (Green Cape),
Ukraine
The thorax and the patternson the thorax are deformed.

watercolourZurich 1990

Lime leafs from Polesskoje,
Ukraine1990

Tempera on graph paper
1991

Three Mile Island1991

Head of a leaf hopper, ‚Homoptera‘ from Goldsboro, nearthenuclear power plant Three Mile Island 1991

Head of a cicada from the area
across the NPP Three Mile
Island, USA

The right eye is damaged with acyst and the red pigment of theeye is on the head.

watercolour, New Cumberland,
Zurich 1991

Ladybug from Governor‘sStable, near the NPP Three
Mile Island, USA

There is a dent on the left wingand a black ulcer on the upperrim.

watercolour, New Cumberland,Zurich 1991

S+'.#U/&1$@/2$=N#1)+)-4&0+#A$%'-4$]-8#'1-'T($I)+@.#3$1#+'$)"#$gNN$!"'##$E&.#$6(.+103$7IM!"#$(,/)#../4$%-'4$+10$)"#$9#..-*$()+&1$%-'4$-1$)"#$@.+,C$@+,C2'-/10$+'#$0#%-'4#0R$*+)#',-.-/'3$g#*$
G/4@#'.+103$5/'&,"$:;;:

Hanford

1998

A&(B#$*

Left: ladybug from Richlandwatercolour 1998
The left wing is shorter.

Right : Ambush bug, Phymatidae, from Othellowatercolour 1998
The left foreleg is shorter and deformed and there is anulcer on the right side of the abdomen.

Tree bug (Pentatomidae)
from Parvin Road, HanfordStudy 1998

One joint is missing in theright feeler.

watercolour, Zurich 1999

La Hague

1999b#?'-,#((&12$?.+1)$O+$S+2/#$&1$Z'+1,#3$:;;;

K&-)-?#$&1$)"#$+'#+$1#+'$)"#$'#?-',#((&12$?.+1)$O+$S+2/#$&1$Z'+1,#3$:;;;

Abdomen of a tree bug
larva, found in La Hogue,
near the reprocessing plant
La Hague, Normandy,France
The abdomen is asymmetric.

watercolour, St. Martin 1999

Wing part of a tree bug, found inAnse St. Martin, near the
reprocessing plant La Hague,
Normandy France
The right wings are damaged.

watercolour,Zurich 1999/2000

X&%-#B-<&%'-#B-U&-A&H/',-;#$:&(*C-\$&("'-1)20-20'-$'%$#"'!!)(H-%3&(2--U&-A&H/',-<]N^X8--------&(*-4Y-!2/*C-%#)(2!-D&33-*&:&H'!+

X&%-#B-<&%'-#B-U&-A&H/',-;#$:&(*C-\$&("'-1)20-20'-$'%$#"'!!)(H-%3&(2--U&-A&H/',-<]N^X8--------&(*-4Y-!2/*C-%#)(2!-D&33-:#$%0#3#H)"&3-*&:&H'!-#B-20#$&S,-%$#(#2/:+

Gundremmingen

1999

NPP Gundremmingen

Atomkraftwerk Gundremmingen 2005

Clouds over the nuclear power plant
Gundremmingen. They are always
there and change the microclimateof the earth.

Squash bug fromLimbach, near the NPP
Gundremmingen, Bavaria
Germany,
found on August 27thAugust 2004

Deformed head withpigments of the eye on
the headcolour sketch, Holzheim2004

Deformed head of a squash
bug from Limbach, near theNPP Gundremmingen, theFree State of Bavaria,
found on August 27th 2004

watercolour, Zurich 2005

Legs of a tree bug, Pentatomidae, from Donaumoos, near the NPP Gundremmingen, Bavaria, Germany
colour sketch, Zurich. May 10th – 12th 2005

Wind frequencies from the NPP Gundremmingen, the Free Stae of Bavaria, Germany: grey anddamage rate of the 28 study positions: redWinter lime
leaf from
Gorleben,intermediate
waste storage
facility forradioactive
waste inGermany

Tempera,Flühli 2008

Control AreasReference biotope
Münstertal (Val Müstair)
Canton of Graubünden

Tree bun, Pentatomidae, fromSta. Maria, Val Mustair
Switzerland
The right wings are deformed.

watercolour
Zurich,1992 - 1993

Head of a soft baug, Miridae, fromSta. Maria, Val Mustair, Switzerland

The eye on the right side is
misshaped.

watercolour
Zurich,1990

Reference biotope
Biosphere Entlebuch
Canton of Lucerne

Reference biotope
Biosphere Entlebuch
Canton of Lucerne

Entlebuch from the south to the north
Foto Cornelia Hesse-Honegger 2008

Abdomen of a soft bug,Miridae, from Flühli,Canton of Lucerne

Two leg parts grow out
from the abdomen.

watercolour, Flühli 2007

Abdomen of a soft bug,Miridae, from Schüpfheim,
Canton of Lucerne

watercolour, Flühli, 2011

Tree bug, Pentatomidae,
from Planalp, Canton ofLucerne
Sep. 09th 2007

The right wing of the bug
larva on the left side isshorter and deformed.
The abdomen of the bugon the right side is curved.

watercolour
Zurich 2007

Nuclear facilities
Positions of the fieldstudy of Aargau
Field study of EntlebuchBise

Map of the damages detected on
found bugs, Heteroptera
Study of the Cantons of Aargau,Solothurn, Zurich and Zug
1993 – 1999andEntlebuch 2006 - 2013

Fukushima - Daiichi

2016

!"#$(/'8&8-'(I##0 @/2$g9(&/($+10$.#+%"-??#'>&#O#%)\$O92+#&0+#3$g9(&/($(?RG-..#,)#0$1#+'$)"#$1/,.#+'$%+,)-'&#($S+1%-'03$D+("&12)-13$7IMb&2")\$O#+%"-??#'3$G&,+0#..+$8&'&0&(64+2# %'-4 *&C&?#0&+D"+)$0-$)"#9$%##0$-1$)-$4+C#$)"#4$(- '#(&.&#1)mThe Losers -True Bugs (Heteroptera) and Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae)
Especially endangered families in true bugs are: Pentatomidae, Coreidae, Reduviidae und Acanthosomatidae
Left: Ladybird beetle from Richland near atom factories Hanford, Washington USAthe left wing is shorter
Right: Tree bug from near the nuclear power plant Gösgen, Canton Aargau Schweiz. The left side of the thorax is deformed.
From which plants do they feed, what makes them so vulnerable towards radioactive emissions from nuclear installations?

S#+0$-%$+$,&,+0+$%'-4$
n+4+C&9+$I+C+3$c+?+13$@-'0#'$)-$)"#$FQ$C4$#L,./(&-1$a-1#$%'-4$)"#$
1/,.#+'$?-*#'$?.+1)$
Z/C/("&4+$B >+&&,"&!"#$'&2")$(&0#$-%$)"#$"#+0$&($0&()/'@#0R!"&($0&()/'@#0$,&,+0+$("-*($)"+)$)"#$?.+,#$*"#'#$&)$.&8#0$&($"&2".9$,-1)+4&1+)#0

1&2'$"#3#/$\/M/!0):&- -PZ46

The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident
on the pale grass blue butterfly
Atsuki Hiyama1*, Chiyo Nohara1*, Seira Kinjo1, Wataru
Taira1, Shinichi Gima2, Akira Tanahara2

Tetraneura sorini, collected 32 km fromthe NPP Fukushima Daiichi in the springof 2012. Damage rate: 13.2%
Dr. Shin-ichi AKIMOTO, Professor

!"#$@&-.-2&,+.$&4?+,)($-%$)"#$Z/C/("&4+$1/,.#+'$+,,&0#1)$-1$)"#$?+.#$2'+(($@./#$@/))#'%.9
M)(/C&$S&9+4+:N3$G"&9-$g-"+'+:N3$I#&'+$j&1e-:3$D+)+'/$!+&'+:3$I"&1&,"&$]&4+F3$MC&'+$!+1+"+'+FList of reference research areas
EntryLocation

CountryYear

Bugs
collectedDisturbance [%]a)
TDMD

1

Tema

Ghana

1971

50

8.002

Isérables

Switzerland

1992

265

3.4

1.9

3

Weggis

Switzerland

1997

68

1.5

1.5

4

Golfo dulce

Costa Rica

2005

63

1.605

CarlowIreland

2005

50

4.0

2.0

6

Entlebuch

Switzerland

2007

910

12.76.9a) The terms TD and MD refer to total disturbance and morphological disturbance, resp. (seeExperimental).

List ofEntry

Year

Location

Country

TargetResearch
areas

11971

Tema

Ghana

reference biotope

5021987

GysingeÖsterfärnebo
Gävle

SwedenChernobyl fallout

80

31987

MelanoRancateSwitzerland

Chernobyl fallout

60

41988

GösgenLeibstadt

Switzerland

nuclear-power plant

221

51989 – 1998

SellafieldUK

nuclear-reprocessingplant445

61989 – 1992

Gockhausen
Isérables

Switzerland

reference biotope

313

71990

Chernobyl:
Polesskoje

Ukraine(formerU.S.S.R.)

Chernobyl fallout55b)

Pripjat
Seljony Mys

Bugsa)

81991

Three Mile Island

USA

nuclear-power plant409

91992 – 1994

Mouans Sartoux

Francereference biotope

111

List ofResearch
areas

10

1992 – 1995

Sta. Maria

Switzerland

reference biotope

270

11

1992 – 2003

Villigen (near PSI)

Switzerlandnuclear-researchlaboratory

1863

12

1993 – 1994

TubreBormio

Italy

Chernobyl fallout

299

13

1994 – 1996

Canton Aargau

Switzerland

nuclear-power plants

2600

141993

Correns

France–118

15

1994

Bagnols en Forêt
St. Maxime

Franc–206

16

1995

StadeKrümmel

Germany

Nuclear-power plants

754

17

1997

NevadaUSA

Nuclear-weapon test area

1292

18

1997

Weggis

Switzerland

Reference biotope

19

1998

HanfordUSA

Nuclea factory

2139

20

1999

Cape de la Haugue(Normandy)

FranceNuclear reprocessing

650

68

21
List ofResearch areas

2002 – 2004

Gunrremmingen(Bavaria)

Germnany

nuclear-power plant

2900

222004

Cu Chic)

Vietmnam

Agent orange

360

232005

Carlow Dundalk

IrelandReference biotope

131242005

Golfo dulce

Costa Rica

Reference biotope

6325

2006 – 2007

Entebuch

Switzerland

Reference biotope

910

Total16367a)

Total number of bugs collected and analyzed over the time period indicated.

b)

Only a small number of bugs could be collected due to the local radiation. The recommended duration ofstay was ca. 10 min (Pripjat) and 3 h (Polesskoje, Seljony Mys), depending on the distance to the molten
reactor core.

c)Including other, less-known areas in Vietnam heavily sprayed with Agent Orange (2) between 1961 to 1971.