Longhorn Beetle Duo Genuine Framed Specimen

The family Cerambycidae has over 35,000 known species and almost every single one of them looks like it was invented by someone who wanted to prove a point about what iridescence can actually do.

This framed duo pairs two genuine longhorn beetles whose colouration shifts and shimmers depending on how the light hits them, the kind of structural colour that has nothing to do with pigment and everything to do with physics operating at a microscopic scale. It sounds dry until you're actually standing in front of it watching a beetle go from matte brown to something that looks like oil on water. For anyone who has ever felt more at home in a natural history museum than a shopping centre, this is the dark alternative to whatever generic art is supposed to go on a wall. Genuine specimen, genuine impact.

Professionally set and mounted behind glass. Framed display piece. As with all real insect specimens, minor natural variation exists between individual pieces.