Artist Tessa Farmer was inspired to create this show while studying wasps in the museum's entomology department, and has created three pieces, including a sculpture showing 50 fairies made of roots and insect wings attacking a stuffed fox.

Farmer's little savages are based on "Victorian fairies, who were quite mischievous and lived in natural habitats, often torturing animals. My fairies are more gory. Their ultimate ambition is to attack humans - they are just practising on the fox."

There is also a stop-motion portrayal of day-to-day life of these vicious beings.  Animated by Tessa Farmer and Sean Daniels, with actual field recordings by Mark Pilkington, the film is based on a posthumous account by the only known naturalist to have witnessed the faeries’ behaviour in the wild.

The show runs until 28 January 2008 at London’s Natural History Museum

Link: Natural History Museum (via Strange Atrractor)