Bug Collections

Ewwweee! These specimens would have seriously freaked me out as a child - I screamed at the sight of anything with wings, antennae, or six-to-eight legs. But I'm a big girl now, and even like these bug collections...

1: a shadow box created for a client at The Framer's Workshop in Berkeley
2: a display of local North East Victoria, Australia insects put together by Insectographs
3: a butterfly collection from the New York Botanical Gardens shop
4: Bug Under Glass' Etsy shop

Is there an entomologist in you? Here's a how-to on collecting local specimens yourself at the R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC, Davis. Note that permits are required in many locales, so research before starting a collection on your own.

Comments (7)

These are wonderful, as are Ernst Haekel's biological prints.

It all depends on one's tolerance level for creepy crawly, of course. I'm sure a few will be mortified at this, they always are.

posted by btoddster on September 22nd 2009 at 3:21pm
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I love 'em... not these in particular, but I love taxidermy and well, framed insects. Don't know why either!

posted by dunklekatze on September 22nd 2009 at 3:26pm
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Mine normally have slobber on them and are often offered as a kitty gift...LOL. Bugs in the home? No. In the garage or study... maybe.

posted by Laughing Tiger on September 22nd 2009 at 4:09pm
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Bugs are beautiful....alive.

posted by AcrossThePond on September 22nd 2009 at 5:14pm
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maybe to be displayed next to a big can of raid? lol.

posted by davidsl on September 22nd 2009 at 5:34pm
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Here is a great collection of bugs!
http://sitandreadfurniture.blogspot.com/2009/07/bugs.html

posted by sitandread on September 23rd 2009 at 12:25am
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Also, check out these butterflies by Joseph Lucien Warren. They're laser cut out of maps and mounted in shadowboxes, for a really pretty effect:

http://visualingual.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/butterfly-by-joseph-lucien-warren/

posted by visualingual on September 23rd 2009 at 1:36pm
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