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This gold jeweller is actually an insect

Michael Allan McCrae | April 24, 2013 | 8:34 pm Precious Metals Gold 

An artist has coaxed insects into make sheaths out of gold, opal and other precious materials. The tiny jewellers are aquatic caddis fly larvae, which use materials at hand in the wild. French artist Hubert Duprat told Cabinet Magazine that...

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