Jonathan Alberico has been collecting oddities and unusual antiques since his childhood. The first piece he collected was an anatomical human heart model. His parents owned an antique shop and he was drawn to weird items that no one else wanted. Alberico started working with dermestid beetles (flesh-eating beetles) while he was working on cleaning a piece used for art project in college. The interest developed from there and he now has colonies of beetles that clean most of the vast majority of animal skulls and bones that can be…
