Ziggurat of the insects & Carnival of the daemons: Lamia

Take a needle and stick it into a bug. On your wall beside the other ones it can be placed then and taken a closer look at. After death matters beauty and rarity, not usefulness. The more exotic the better - the prettier shell the more pleasant. The world runs on insects - the ugly ones. The ones who work - worker ants... Big bugs order the little ones around and wear their luxurious shells. They too are ugly nevertheless.
The butterflies, they are pretty! Pretty, pretty useless butterflies...
Yet what matters after death is beauty and rarity, not usefulness.

In ancient Greek mythology, Lamia was a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating daemon. While the word lamia literally means "large shark" in Greek, Aristophanes claimed her name derived from the Greek word for gullet referring to her habit of devouring children. Some accounts say she has a serpent's tail below the waist. This popular description of her is largely due to Lamia, a poem by John Keats published in 1819. Antoninus Liberalis uses Lamia as an alternate name for the serpentine drakaina Sybaris.

Lamia by Herbert James Draper (1909)