Shiny AF! Jewel Beetle Genuine Specimen Collection

Before there were rhinestones, before there was chrome, before anyone thought to bedazzle anything, nature had already solved iridescence. Jewel beetles have been doing maximalist metallics since before the Cambrian and they have never once apologised for it.

This is a genuine assortment of buprestid specimens, the Buprestidae family being the beetles responsible for some of the most outrageously metallic colouring in the insect world. Sourced from Thailand and framed in a display made from recycled materials, this is the kind of dark, curious object that earns its wall space. It reads as cabinet of curiosities, as natural history archive, as something a Victorian naturalist would have killed to own. A statement for anyone drawn to the gothic, the strange, and the genuinely beautiful, without the synthetic.

Species: Jewel beetles, assorted buprestids. Origin: Thailand. Frame dimensions: 15.5 x 28.5cm, depth 5cm. Made from recycled materials.