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Millions of lovebugs, or march flies, hatch, mate, lay eggs and die within the span of a month every spring and fall in Florida. Coupled at the tail like two headed beasts, they swarm in clouds, leaving sticky corpses splattered across cars and the landscape. In a witty take on this phenomenon, which he witnessed during his residencies at Graphicstudio, Vik Muniz gathered thousands of pairs of the amorous insects to create iconized images of sexual positions from the Kama Sutra, the ancient Hindu text on human sexual behavior.
