South African Natural History Photographer

Simon Joubert is a South African based natural history photographer and amateur entomological field worker.  He has, during the past 15 years, assisted in collecting and recording insect data from the eastern section of Southern Africa.  This information and data has been used by institutions such as the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife data bases and the South African Butterfly Conservation Assessment.  As a Natural History photographer Simon specialises in insects and flowers.  Images are provided to a number of Stock Photography web sites.  Recently Simon has produced a limited range of black and white images of collected items and butterflies as well as a range of colour images of museum specimen butterflies.  The butterflies used are all endemic to the South Eastern region of Southern Africa.  Please see Simon's web site for more images as well as the black and white range.

Massive Update at Insect Designs

Insect Designs has just had a large update with many new specimens and restocks from Peru, Mexico and RCA. As we have been able to obtain some species more cheaply, you will notice several price reductions all over the site. Please visit us soon for a browse.

Mexican Butterflies

Recently Insect Designs received a large parcel of mixed butterfly specimens from a new contact in Mexico. Although many are still on the setting board drying and awaiting identification, several have just been listed for sale in the store. You will find these scattered throughout the site.

Lycaenidae, Heliconidiae and Riodinidae Pages Updated

The singles listings in the Lycaenidae, Heliconidae and Riodinidae pages at Insect Designs have just been updated with some interesting unidentified species from Mexico and Peru. The photos you will find for these on the web site are of the actual specimens you will be purchasing. There are often hard to obtain species in these lists, so please visit soon to secure the best ones. Rarer ones normally sell very quickly.

Fresh Butterflies from RCA

Insect Designs has just been updated with some fresh specimens from RCA (Republic of Central Africa). You will find these scattered around the web site. Please visit soon for a browse.

New Beetles Just Added

Insect Designs has just been updated with three new beetles - Batocera parryi from Sumatra, and Pyrodes pulcherrimus females and Cantharolethrus stenheili (only a few left) from Peru. We have also received fresh stock of the stunning jewel beetle, Euchroma gigantea, also from Peru.

New Beetles from Indonesia and Peru

The beetles section at Insect Designs has just been updated with some really nice Lucanidae and Cerambycidae from Indonesia and Peru. Stock is really limited on several of these. Photos of some of these are already on the web site with the rest of the photos being posted within the next two days.