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Artist creates intricate sculptures using dead insects - with each costing more than £400 | SWNS

This artist creates humanoid sculptures by repurposing dead insect parts - which he sells for £446 a piece. Joos Habraken, 28, creates bug creatures, measuring eight to 15-centimeters tall, each containing between 30 and 100 pieces of dead insect. Each sculpture can contain parts from up to 30 individual insects including beetles, grasshoppers, mantises and butterflies. Joos harvests the bug body parts from insects he finds on walks or purchases them from wholesalers. To make the sculptures, Joos takes apart the bugs, grinds down the pieces and mounts them on a stick before gluing them together. Joos, a climbing instructor and route setter, from Ghent, Belgium, said: "The hardest part is getting the details right, because you're using 30 different bugs, so you don't know if the head will fit the body." Each piece takes between 30 and 40 hours of work and Joos makes three or four pieces a year. So far, he has sold every piece he has made, with the exception of the last three, as he is preparing for an exhibition. The sculptures now sell for more than £400 a piece. ------------------------------ Please subscribe for daily viral videos and check out all our social channels here: https://linktr.ee/swns To license this video for editorial or commercial use please contact video@swns.com #SWNS #News #Arts #Crafts #DIY #Animals #Wildlife #Insects #Dead #Bug #Humanoid #Sculptures #Artist #Expensive #Reuse #beetles #grasshoppers #mantises #butterflies #Purchase #Wholesalers #Glue #Figurines #Bugs #Ghent #Belgium #Weird #Body #Exhibition #Hero