Thai Handcrafted Green Elytra Beetle Pin and similar items

From the gift shop at the Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resort Spa, Waikiki Beach. This is a charming pin and 16? Necklace set! The beetle can be used on a hat, purse, lapel, shirt, lampshade, lol or anywhere your imagination takes you. The beetle's outer wings are real beetlewing casings. Other materials used as follows: The base is polymer clay, painted in iridescent enamel. The abdomen is a fluorescent resin eye-shaped cabochon. The thorax is a neon acrylic square cabochon. The antennae are metal headpins. The eyes are tiny fluorescent dots. The under-wings are finely woven ivory net. It fastens on the back with a rolling catch bar pin. Beetle brooch made using real jewel beetle elytra (wing cases). Fake taxidermy, faux entomology. A fluorescent, dayglo beetle badge. The necklace is 16? long and made of beetle wings. Materials: real beetle elytra, sternocera elytra, polymer clay, finely woven net, jewel beetlewings, gunmetal headpins, rolling catch bar pin, brooch back, neon acrylic cabochon, fluorescent resin square flat back, day glow acrylic flat back, neon coloured jewels, fluoro plastic gem. Green/Blue Iridescent Real Elytra Jewel Beetle Wing Hand Made Necklace These are real beetle wing covers from the Sternocera aquisignata beetle. Beetle wing jewelry is an ancient craft technique using iridescent beetle wings practiced traditionally in Thailand for many decades. Beetle wings are valued for their beautiful and hardy metallic iridescence. They are very light, but surprisingly tough and durable. The Beetles used in these pieces are farm raised. Some are gathered after the beetle dies, but in many places, the Beetles themselves provide a food source for the local people. Just like leftover oyster shells, the wing covers can obviously not be eaten, so they are used in the manufacturing of jewelry. Thus these jewelry items are environmentally friendly and a great gift for anyone with an interest and appreciation for Nature. See my other dichroic glass bug pin at my other listings.