This artifact is a post by Jessica "Dixie" Mills on her Instagram, @homemadewanderlust, showing an aphid crawling on her finger while she is hiking. Mills uses her Instagram as a place to share photographs from her backpacking expeditions, and this photo comes from her time in Wyoming traveling on the Continental Divide Trail. The left side features a picture of her fingernail where the aphid is crawling, and the right side features her caption showing excitement for the bug, hashtags, and other users' comments.
The picture features the authors caucasian left ring finger up close, where a small green aphid can be seen crawling on her finger nail. The finger nail and aphid are the focus on the picture, and the rest of the image is out of camera focus.
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Linguistic: <bold> homemadewanderlust <bold> <blue> Follow <blue>
<bold> photographer.darren <bold> It makes me feel so
huge when I watch little guys like this one
and know they prob have bugs walking
around on their shell and tiny hairs on their knees.
<bold> latebloomhiker <bold> I'm wondering how you
keep your nails so clean?!
<bold> transmuteglass <bold> <blue> #aphid <blue>
<bold> michellebeaumont64 <bold> Amazing camera!
<bold> miniperlhiker <bold> Talk about small! Nice
cuticles...healthy! Must be all the hiking. :)
<bold> chazbo82 <bold> Stink bug. When it gets big, you
will hate it.
AUGUST 31
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Visual: Author's profile picture of her standing on a cliff.
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Jessica "Dixie" Mills, @homemadewanderlust, “"Hey there, little guy!",” Museum of Everyday Writing, accessed April 23, 2024, https://museumofeverydaywriting.omeka.net/items/show/871.
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