I just saw this report on a kit you can buy (only in Japan? the article has a link to Amazon Japan) to make your own gummi insects! I love it. Check out the commercial:
I love that the legs are affixed to the body later – sounds like a great lab exercise for an Insect Morphology class – and that they have Oniscidea in different states of rolledness. Though it’s a stag beetle pushing that “dung” roll, rather than a dung beetle (as far as I know, all dung rollers are classified Scarabaeidae), I think that’s a forgivable misidentification – same superfamily at least! But why aren’t there any cockroach molds?!
