Fashion bug: Teens turn dead cicadas into jewelry

Fashion bug: Teens turn dead cicadas into jewelry

Beth Nyhan of Sandwich, Mass. looks at a pair of lacquered insect earrings, made from cicadas, created by Brady Cullinan and Katheryn Maloney.

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Story Published: Jul 10, 2008 at 9:57 AM PDT

Story Updated: Nov 20, 2008 at 10:57 PM PDT

By Associated Press

SANDWICH, Mass. (AP) - Two 17-year-old jewelry makers from Cape Cod, Massachusetts are hoping swarms of customers will want their latest creations: earrings and necklaces made from dead bugs.

Katheryn Maloney and Brady Cullinan are selling jewelry made out of the cicadas that swarmed their town of Sandwich this summer.

The pair charges $10 for earrings or necklaces made out of the bugs' lacquered carcasses.

They tell the Cape Cod Times that some people find the jewelry gross, but others are impressed with its uniqueness.

Maloney and Cullinan began making the bug jewelry in mid-June after Cullinan's mother suggested the idea.

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