This artist creates humanoid sculptures by repurposing dead insect parts - which he sells for £446 a piece.

Joos Habraken, 28, creates bug creatures, measuring eight to 15-centimeters tall, each containing between 30 and 100 pieces of dead insect.

Each sculpture can contain parts from up to 30 individual insects including beetles, grasshoppers, mantises and butterflies.

Joos harvests the bug body parts from insects he finds on walks or purchases them from wholesalers.

To make the sculptures, Joos takes apart the bugs, grinds down the pieces and mounts them on a stick before gluing them together.

Joos, a climbing instructor and route setter, from Ghent, Belgium, said: "The hardest part is getting the details right, because you're using 30 different bugs, so you don't know if the head will fit the body."

Each piece takes between 30 and 40 hours of work and Joos makes three or four pieces a year.

So far, he has sold every piece he has made, with the exception of the last three, as he is preparing for an exhibition.

The sculptures now sell for more than £400 a piece.

The figures come with their own detailed backstories and portray characters and species from a fictional universe.

They are inspired by archetypes or idealised versions of concepts such as "hero" or "warrior".

Joos added: "I feel like I'm creating a new species with a new life and story.

"I start with an archetype like father, mother, witch or benevolent king. These are things that people know, without them knowing they recognise them.

"It's definitely therapeutic and meditative to create these, but I don't think about what it brings to me, it's just the creation of something beautiful.

"100% of the time people are interested when I tell them, they ask what I mean, then I show them and they love them.

"Sometimes I don't touch my art for a month. You just don't always have the time, but it's always nice to come back and see the work come together, that moment is just a super good feeling."