Who We Are

For the past few decades, we have been keeping a very low profile of our insect trade activities but we have been quietly known as the world's largest supplier of rare tropical insects - for both live supplies and dried insect specimens by a few insect collectors, insect zoos and entomological houses. This website (Leppidio.com) mainly serves as an online retail outlet for dried specimens and wholesale of live insects & pupae supplies.

As one of the pioneers in Nature's gift art, the sole purpose of B&I is to design & manufacture butterfly and insect gifts and souvenirs with the highest quality and uniqueness. Since the early 70's we have been developing the natural beauty of nature's most beautiful art, the butterfly. Since then, our techniques have been refined and many more ranges of products are being made possible with current up to date new technologies while still preserving the most innocent beauty of nature.

On top of that, our ability to commission to produce insect gifts has reached professional museum level. We have been acknowledge as the one stop supplier for butterfly and insect gifts and souvenirs. Though it was previously thought that butterfly collecting endangered butterfly populations. It was often difficult to impose a set of rules for those who collect for research and those collect for insect trade or insect exchange. Within our group of organization, we can safely say that we are self sustainable. By that we mean we have the ability in the researching, developing and breeding of butterflies, while exhibiting them for the purpose of appreciation and education and finally preserving and producing them into art form as gifts in order to retain their natural beauty for many decades to come. In short, we as a group can safely declare that we contribute towards nature's conservation more than we take from it. Our major conservation activities is being led by the Penang Butterfly Farm. Learn about our Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium.

It would be safe to say we are a complete centre for portraying nature's beauty and no other private institution has come this far to be able to cover all aspects of preserving the natural history of the tropical world.

Learn more about our sister company, Tropical Entomological House which specializes in breeding and supplying live insects and pupa.