An amusing little video of a beautiful pet Deroplatys truncata being gently teased (obviously, no harm intended!)



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Another Cosmoderus - "Fighter" cricket video I just accidentally stumbled upon - they would really make "kinda cute in their own little spikey armour" amusing pets...




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:shock: :shock: Totally awesome Giant Katydid specimens, beautifully mounted, as usual, Panacanthus! Congrats on acquiring such a spectacular mini army of a usually underappreciated order of insects. All of these impressive giant Katydids are certainly "armed to the teeth" with protective ...

Mormon Crickets (actually Katydids)... The largest sp. of cricket/katdydid I've found here in Saskatchewan was a couple of small "colonies" of Mormon crickets in extreme southern Sask. many years ago. I volunteered to help some entomologists from the Ag Canada Research stations in Regina (...

More good memories livingplanet3! Thanks for the additional info on the author. Collecting vintage entomology books is another hobby of mine, as well. Interesting to hear how similar interests were spawned from some of the same books. I have another of his books on Butterflies & Moths. His picto...

Another couple of really bizarre (pretty? ) Hemipterans from Ecuador,


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WOW, WOW, WOW... Many Thanks to everyone for uploading additional photos of all these massive Katydids. I first became aware of S. grandis when I bought a 1969 book, long ago in my youth, entitled "The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Insects" by V.J. Stanek. On pg. 52 - photo #71, is an old B. &...

Very cool (& fragile looking!) spider mimic Cerambycids pr. from Thailand


No I.D. from Buru Isl. - Check out those antennae!


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3rd sp. - M. castelnaudi -77mm - also from Malaysia


A comparison of all 3 sp. - Mormolyce phyllodes, M. hagenbachi & M. castelnaudi


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Interesting ground beetle - from Wikipedia - "Mormolyce phyllodes can reach a length of 60–100 millimetres (2.4–3.9 in).[4] These beetles possess a flat leaf-shaped, shiny black or brown body with distinctive violin-shaped translucent elytra (hence the common name). This characteristic mimicry ...

An unusual Cerambycid (above no data) & a beautiful pr. (below) of the lovely blue Cerambycids - Pseudomyagrus waterhousei from Malaysia


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A couple of really nice, older, online Papilio thoas aberrants


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Additional older online photo of another ab. P. androgeus


& a P. androgeus gynander & normal male & female


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Older, online photo of a beautiful melanic Graphium androcles


& an interesting melanic specimen of P. androgeus - ventral


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Another older online P. blumei ab. & a P. bromius ab.,


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Not Mine!...older, online Abs. of Papilio blumei once offered for sale - very beautiful, very rare & very pricey...


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(Not Mine!) Incredible collection of 28 specimens (big & small) of Titanus giganteus...


(Not Mine!... old online photo) Big (148mm) & small (92mm)... I do, however, have a smaller 88mm T. g. - John K.


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One of the weirdest looking fly families in the world - the stalk eyed flies - no data


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Panacanthus,

Thank you very much for expanding our knowledge on the appearance of this fascinating group of tropical Katydids...incredible individual variation... WOW! You better get a couple dozen new insect drawers to house those once eventually mounted up!

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Wow!.... those 2 photos of humungous tropical flies, in hand, are actually larger than some of the mosquitoes we have up here! Very impressive, I think even I would do a doubletake/slight freakout if one of those suddenly dropped down on me.... TFP

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