Accessory packs: Death Valley, Butterfly Set, Scorpion Nest

Three arthropod-centric accessory packs by Schleich. Susanne already reviewed the Death Valley set, but here are all three together.

First the 'Butterfly Set' from 2015. It has two butterflies and an agave-like plant. The butterflies are generic, but the paint application on the orange one looks as though it might have been influenced by the monarch, Danaus plexippus and the yellow one was influenced by a sulfur butterfly in the family Pieridae. Both are generic though (and I don't think either would be associated with this plant in nature, but don't hold me to that).

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Next is the 'Death Valley Set', also from 2015. It has a scorpion, spider, millipede, and a cattle/bison skull. The millipede, which is quite well done given its small size, is a welcome change. There are several large, dark millipedes in the desert southwest, most in the orders Spirobolida and Spirostreptida. The spider and scorpion are too generic, although one could imagine the spider as the western widow, Latrodectus hesperus but it's lacking the red hourglass!

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Thirdly is the 'Scorpion Nest' from 2016. The scorpion is the same model from the Death Valley Set and the 'nest' has been used multiple times with other figures for similarly-styled accessory packs.

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That was interesting sets :)

Schleich really suggested somethin different with these sets, unfortunately not very accurate scientifically.

Roger wrote:

Schleich really suggested somethin different with these sets, unfortunately not very accurate scientifically.

They have a welcome place in my museum

Great to see them again ! I really like those sets, - and the gerbil set too.
Yes, Schleich gives it a try now and then