So I am SUPER excited that Bone Garden Design delivered my entomology frames the other day!!!
The one above is a Pepsis Wasp native to Indonesia. Otherwise known as a Tarantula Wasp. This one was not one that I looked at and was immediately in love with. Kind of a strange looking bug about the size of a woman's palm, but once I heard it's story, I kind of had to have him! These wasps have venom that paralyzes tarantulas. It then drags them to its home and injects its eggs inside of the tarantula so that they hatch from the carcass and feed off of the dead tarantula. Now THAT is kickass. I'm pretty deathly afraid of spiders. I find them interesting and I will definitely collect a few framed ones but I will not go near live ones. Which is why a tarantula killing wasp is friggen rad to me <3
This guy does not have a cool story, but I've been wanting to add a horned beetle of any kind to my collection for a while now and I really love the look of this one! He is also from Indonesia and he is a Dorcus Titanus.... now with that name you really can't not add him to your collection!!! (I'm a child)
I also already owned some butterflies that I brought back from El Salvador when I visited there the first time around and they have been on a wall in every room I have lived in since. Now they just have friends from different parts!
I definitely want to do some more travelling to pick up bugs from around the world myself again, but for right now I am benefitting off of other's amazing travels and the folks at Bone Garden Design were really great and they collect the bugs themselves so it's a company that I fully stand behind! They even changed the original wood frames into black ones for me because I like this look much better. My butterflies are in wood frames and I plan to take them apart and paint the frames once I move. Probably white. That would make them pop really nicely!
Anywhooo I thought I'd let you all into my nerdy weird world of bug collecting...
