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Ma'kech
A living brooch, also known as a ma'kech, makech, and maquech, is a brooch made from a living beetle of the genus ''Zopherus'' (one of the three genera of ironclad beetle), particularly the species ''Zopherus chilensis ''Zopherus chilensis'', also commonly known as the ma'kech or jewelled bug, is a species of ironclad beetle in the family Zopheridae. Despite the name "''chilensis''", nearly all of the known specimens have been found from Mexico to Venezuela. ...''. The brooches are decorated with paste gemstones, bric-à-brac, and imitation gold, and are tethered to a woman's blouse by a small chain. Such brooches have traditionally been made in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico as objects of personal adornment. They do not move quickly, are very hardy, and are capable of living for over 3 years without food or water. References {{reflist Jewellery Insects in culture Cruelty to animals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Makech
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Brooch
A brooch (, also ) is a decorative jewelry item designed to be attached to garments, often to fasten them together. It is usually made of metal, often silver or gold or some other material. Brooches are frequently decorated with enamel or with gemstones and may be solely for ornament or serve a practical function as a clothes fastener. The earliest known brooches are from the Bronze Age. As fashions in brooches changed rather quickly, they are important chronological indicators. In archaeology, ancient European brooches are usually referred to by the Latin term fibula. Ancient brooches Brooches were known as fibula (plural fibulae) prior to the Middle Ages. These decorative items, used as clothes fasteners, were first crafted in the Bronze Age. In Europe, during the Iron Age, metalworking technology had advanced dramatically. The newer techniques of casting, metal bar-twisting and wire making were the basis for many new objects, including the fibula. In Europe, Celtic crafts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zopherus
''Zopherus'' is a genus of beetles comprising 19 species. They live in the Americas and are adapted to wood-boring. Distribution Species of ''Zopherus'' only live in the Americas, where they are distributed from Venezuela to the southern United States. Ten species live in the United States, five of them in California. Description Members of the genus are long and cylindrical, with very thick exoskeletons. Indeed, the elytra are so thick that it is often necessary to drill a hole in them in order to mount specimens. Species living north of the Rio Grande are almost all uniformly black in colour, while the tropical species are almost all strongly patterned in contrasting black and white. The animal's head is largely hidden by the thorax. The elytra are fused together, rendering ''Zopherus'' species unable to fly. Ecology ''Zopherus'' species are adapted for boring into wood, some species even being reported to bore into sound wood, rather than only dead wood. ''Z. tristis'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ironclad Beetle
Zopherinae is a subfamily of beetles, commonly known as ironclad beetles. Together with the subfamily Usechinae, they have been treated historically as a family, but have recently been joined by several additional taxa, making the Zopheridae a much larger composite family, and the Zopherinae are now only a small component within it, consisting of seven genera in the tribe Zopherini and one, '' Phellopsis'' in its own tribe ( Phellopsini). These beetles are apparently fungivores and associated with rotting wood, and as the common name implies, have one of the hardest of all arthropod exoskeletons; in some species, it is almost impossible to drive an insect pin through their bodies without using a small drill to make a hole first. When disturbed, ironclad beetles play dead. Some species in the genus '' Zopherus'' in Mexico are decorated with costume jewelry glued to their bodies, and sold as living brooches, known as ''ma'kech''. Selected species *Genus '' Phellopsis'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zopherus Chilensis
''Zopherus chilensis'', also commonly known as the ma'kech or jewelled bug, is a species of ironclad beetle in the family Zopheridae. Despite the name "''chilensis''", nearly all of the known specimens have been found from Mexico to Venezuela. Appearance ''Z. chilensis'' is described "muted gold" to "dull white" in colour, with black blotches or tubercles on its back. It is the largest species the in the genus Zopherus, and grows between 34 and 46 mm in length; 13 to 17 mm in width. As living brooches In the Yucatán Peninsula, locals collect specimens of ''Z. chilensis'' and attach to their backs rhinestones, pearls, chenille, and small baubles. The beetle is then attached to a small golden leash and worn as jewellery or, more frequently in modern times, sold to tourists. The practice is at least a hundred years old. Life cycle, habitat, and diet ''Z. chilensis'' lives in dead wood in arid forests and other similarly hot, dry, regions. The larvae A larva (; plural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewellery
Jewellery ( UK) or jewelry ( U.S.) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example. For many centuries metal such as gold often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as glass, shells and other plant materials may be used. Jewellery is one of the oldest types of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from '' Nassarius'' shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.Study reveals 'oldest jewellery' , '' |
Insects In Culture
Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including serious damage to crops and extensive efforts to eliminate insect pests. Academically, the interaction of insects and society has been treated in part as cultural entomology, dealing mostly with "advanced" societies, and in part as ethnoentomology, dealing mostly with "primitive" societies, though the distinction is weak and not based on theory. Both academic disciplines explore the parallels, connections and influence of insects on human populations, and vice versa. They are rooted in anthropology and natural history, as well as entomology, the study of insects. Other cultural uses of insects, such as biomimicry, do not necessarily lie within these academic disciplines. More generally, people make a wide range of uses of insects, both practical and symbolic. On the oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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