Grasshopper Framed Specimens

Not every collection needs a skull. Sometimes it needs six legs and a 65-million-year head start.

Grasshoppers have been doing their thing since before the dinosaurs clocked off, and the order Orthoptera, straight-wings, strange-legs, covers everything from your backyard grasshopper to the locusts that made pharaohs reconsider their career choices. What makes this framed collection genuinely arresting is the variety, different species side by side shows you just how wild the variation gets across size, colour and form. This is entomological art for people who find beauty in the weird and the precise, the kind of thing that belongs in a gothic study, a curiosity cabinet, or next to a shelf of horror paperbacks and dead flowers. Framed by Bugs & Bits, who do this properly.

Contents: multiple grasshopper, cricket, katydid or locust specimens from the order Orthoptera, framed and mounted, ready to hang. As with all real specimen displays, minor natural variation between individual pieces is expected.