It’s fun to see comic strips from before everything became instantly referencable at the push of a button. Like what are these weird Mosquito-headed hornets? I choose to believe that the artist could not be arsed to look up pictures of hornets at the library or bookstore, so they filled in (or hallucinated :D) their knowledge gaps on hornet anatomy by making stuff up.
Good insight. Seems to fit the puzzle. I also suspect time constraints to be the biggest factor behind the “can’t be arsed” part and not the artist’s laziness.