Iridescent beetle wings are incorporated into earrings and other jewelry.
The gems she wears, including emeralds formed from iridescent beetle wings pasted onto the painting's surface, are crucial signs of her elevated status.
One-Sirix, she thought-instantly activated his systems, ebony carapace flapping open like beetle wings.
The leader is a man without arms, with useless ornamental beetle wings.
He flinched violently and looked up to see a man in a very strange helmet, as if glossy green beetle wings had folded over his skull.
From beneath their shade she spread her beautiful, useless little beetle wings.
The extremely dry cave had created an ideal storage condition that preserved a variety of fascinating artifacts from beetle wings to textiles and human coprolites.
The apartment had a speaking apparatus, a sort of ornate tube thing that whistled and buzzed green metallic beetle wings when there was a call.
In some instances, the beetle wings will retain their natural sparkle, even though the cloth surrounding them may have decayed.
These fossils, noted for their exquisite preservation, including soft tissue, body outline and even colour sheen on beetle wings, are notoriously difficult to preserve.