Bugs, Insects, & Creepy Crawlies

Thanks, Mr.nethryk.
I am trying to be a good poster like you! Your info is not only
interesting, educational - you also have Humor!



Fifia

Great topic! Bug stamps are so colourful. This year I received two bug covers from a friend in Indonesia:

Butterflies


...and, um, assorted bugs

Butterflies from Taiwan, nice souvenir sheet from 2011:

scifi7 - you should also post that sheet on the butterflies thread (https://goscf.com/t/2014). They almost look like moths, though.

Thanks Nells250. I think I should try and find out whether or not they are butterflies first.

I wonder if there are enough MOTH stamps to warrant their own thread?? HA! ;-)

Dragonflies (Ireland)

Some Malaysian insect stamps:

Spiders (2009)


Left to right- Fighting spider, Curved spiny spider, Golden orb-web spider. Check out the web framing of the stamps.


Fireflies (2010)

I really like the Australian insects set posted by Tomiseksj on page 2. Very rich colours & lively designs.

Here is a set of moths from Vietnam issued in 1998



(clockwise from top left) Antheraea helferi, a moth found in s.e.Asia.
Argema mittrei, the Madagascar moon moth or Giant Comet, the world's largest moth.
Attacus atlas, the Atlas moth found in s.e.Asia.
Argena maenas or Actias maenas, the Malaysian moon moth.

Some spiders on stamps and maximum cards of Bulgaria:

The Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis) looks like a long and slender praying mantis, with different shades of brown, and it is typically larger than most other mantises. This species is often erroneously given the taxonomic name of Tenodera aridifolia sinensis, as it is on the stamp imaged below, printed by lithogravure, and issued by China (People's Republic) on June 28, 1992 as one of a set of four Chinese insect stamps , Scott No. 2396.

- nethryk

Here are images of the five stamps in an indigenous beetles set, designed by S. Rodboon, and issued by Laos on August 28, 1968.

- nethryk

Chrysochroa mnizechi, engraved by Claude Haley, Scott No. 171.


Aristobia approximator, engraved by Louis-Norbert Hanniquet, Scott No. 172.


Eutaenia corbetti, engraved by Claude Jumelet, Scott No. 173.


Dorysthenes walkeri, airmail stamp engraved by Cécile Guillame, Scott No. C54.


Megaloxantha bicolor, airmail stamp engraved by Eugène Lacaque, Scott No. C55.

Hi spanishmoss,

very nice Alphabet !

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