New Beetles from the Philippines

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We have just received some really nice beetles from the Philippines. You will find them in the Circulionidae, Buprestidae, Cetoniidae, Cicindelidae and Cerambycidae sections of the web site. Below are photos of just a few of them. Stock of most of the species available is very limited.

Singles Pages Updated

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Both singles pages at Insect Designs have been updated with some interesting specimens from Tanzania and Cameroon. The photos on the African Singles page and Single Beetles page are of the actual specimens being offered. I have not identified many of the items being offered, so you may find something that's hard to get at a great price.

Fresh Specimens from RCA and the Philippines

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Things have been very busy at Insect Designs this week with the arrival of several packages from RCA and the Philippines. On the site you will find a number of restocked items and new specimens, including some very nice Achillides karna iruana and some female Euphaedra and Asterope from RCA.

We have also received some very nice new beetles from the Philippines. These should appear on the web site within the next week.

Some new Butterflies and Beetles from Africa

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Insect Designs has just been updated with a few new specimens from Africa. We also have a number of restocks from RCA.

1. Cetoniidae from Tanzania and Cameroon.

2. Precis columbia, Precis cleocharis and Pieris pharis from RCA.

New Dynastidae from Indonesia

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We have just added two new beetles to the Dynastidae section at Insect Designs, some very nice Chalcosoma atlas males and some large Chalcosoma caucasus males. They are really stunning.

We are also awaiting some new stock from the Philippines. These should arrive within the next week or so.

Fresh Specimens from Indonesia

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Insect Designs has just been updated with some fresh specimens from Indonesia. Amongst the restocks we have some Arhopala araxes pairs and Arhopala herculina males, and we have some lovely Hyplolimnas pandarus pandarus females and Hypolimnas pandarus pandora males.

We also have several new specimens on offer:
1. Euploea phaenareti hollandi females and Euploea rhadamanthus schildi males;

2. Arhopala anthelus and Arhopala trogon males;

3. Various Parantica males and females;

4. Papilio ulysses telegonus females (2 only);

5. Very nice Papilio memnon x Papilio oenomaus (5 only);

6. Menelaides rumanzovia x Papilio oenomaus (1 only).

Fine Art by Luigi Puiu

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Over the years I have had the chance to meet many interesting people in the course of dealing with butterflies.

Luigi Puiu, one of my customers, lives in Romania. Not only is he an avid collector with an impressive personal collection of more than 54 000 butterflies (he will share some photos of his specimens at a later date), but he is also an accomplished artist with a master and doctorate in Fine Art. He has had 43 exhibitions, 18 of them being outside Romania. Luigi is also a designer.

Three of Luigi's art works are pictured below. Their actual size is 75/55cm and they are done on hand-made Japanese paper.

If any of you do interesting things featuring butterflies, I would be happy to post some photographs and information about them on this blog.