Bugs, Bats & Skeletons

Indonesian Banded Flower Mantis - one of collection of domed bugs

Childhood nursery rhyme that when you repeat it and say it fast you say Bugger and Bloody - He he he.

All our bugs are ethically sourced from conservation farming projects - helping to preserve rainforest habitat.

Jewel Beatle Chrysocheroa castelnaudi

Lengths ranging from 3 to 80 mm (0.12 to 3.15 in), although most species are under 20 mm (0.79 in)
A variety of bright colours are known, often in complex patterns. The iridescence common to these beetles is not due to pigments in the exoskeleton, but instead is caused by structural coloration rather like reflections on a laser disc.
Indonesian Banded Flower Mantis (Theopropus elegans)

Individual T. elegans hatched from a single ootheca and reared under the same conditions can show color variation between tones of red, green, and yellow. Individuals can also change their color in as little as a week.
Jewel Beatles (Buprestidae)

Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,500 species known in 775 genera

Jewel Beatle Chrysocheroa castelnaudi