Amazing Beetle site!

[Ganoderma]

while i was searching for local beetles on the web i ran across this site.

its in chinese but still has latin names and LOTS of pictures!!! great site i think
http://freebsd.tspes.tpc.edu.tw/~afu/701.htm

scratch that its all insects...
http://freebsd.tspes.tpc.edu.tw/~afu/

 

[Dark Raptor]

Yup, looks great... I should start to learn chinese ;P

If you'd like to see tons of pics of european beetles, check this site:
http://koleopterologie.de/gallery/index.html

I love it because you can find there a lot of species that are very rare, too small or unattractive for "normal" photographers ;P

 

[Gigas]

http://freebsd.tspes.tpc.edu.tw/~afu/7a3.htm someone was asking for the name of these the other day

 

[duente]

this is "beettlecius"!! thanks for the link!!:clap:

 

[jarrell]

this is the best link ever thanks!!!
I translate with google is this any good?

 

[Taceas]

Awesome site!

And yes, I translated it with Google and its a lot easier to navigate since I don't know Mandarin. It's Engrish, but its readable and pretty simplified.

Translated Page

 

[Randolph XX()]

HI all
after 2008
the "Chinese" people r using in Taiwan is no longer recognized by the UN
so I guess it could be officially called Taiwanese now!
and Mandarin is a just one of the SPOKEN languages

we also have a resourceful of beetle forums , but unfortunatley in traditional Chinese

 

[Ganoderma]

it as me asking about those!

it's not being recognised by the UN eh? i am not liking what i hear about the world politics in the last 5 years or so...

I taking chinese classes and from what we are taught, taiwanese mandarin and chinese mandarin are kind of different. mostly th espoken but even writting seems a little different.

thanks for the link dark raptor, good pics!

randolph, do you know of any other good picture sites of taiwans/asias insects?

 

[Randolph XX()]

Hey kyle
http://insectforum.no-ip.org/gods/cgi-bin/leobbs.cgi
is the biggest insect forum in Taiwan
i even know there is one Jap hobbyist who use translation software to participate and share in the forum which is smiply amazing
BTW
the spoken Mandarin even varies in the vast land of China as for the English varies in western society

the written Chinese is the biggest difference, becuz in China they use simplfied Chinese which is "invented" by the commies, and we use the "traditional" Chinesewhich was carried to Taiwan when the democratic party evacuated from China at the yr 1949

well 99% of the chinese language written by people are simplified Chinese(yeah of course, billions and trillions of ppl, even in south east asia such as singapore ,malaysia, indonesia), only Hong Kong and Taiwan use the old ones, so the world would force us to confront to the majority

 

[Ganoderma]

oh wow! i had no idea that the majority spoke simplified! i dont uinderstand it, but our text book shave small sections about it.

Thanks for the link! i have translating software...she goes by the name "Junet" and is only available for a few minutes a day :razz:

you happen to kno wany good translators? google/dictionary.come/yahoo all suck a big one.....

 

[Randolph XX()]

nonono steve
simplified =written form, like the characters are simplified
it's so simplified that one character can equal to several others just defined by the context of the meaning
the best translator is to learn the language, i guess it's a lot easier since u already have the environment now!

 

[Ganoderma]

totally! but 1 charectar can already mean a lot...thats the hardest part for me....and simplified even moreso? i would go nuts!

 

[jarrell]

oh well do you know where some one who doesnt know any chinese or mandrin could get translation software. sorry im so stupid at language.

 

[Scythemantis]

Woah...look at these FLIES!

http://freebsd.tspes.tpc.edu.tw/~afu/821.htm

Are they supposed to be imitating beetles? They're clearly flies, from the head and the category they're in...the shell appears to be part of the thorax. What a weird design, it makes the wings like a couple of switchblades or something.

 

[Ganoderma]

those are cool! i havn't seen them yet.

i did find 2 very large bees yesterday. the one i caught (eventually) is about1.5 inches! so big (i HATE to say it) i froze it to keep and eventually preserve for looking....never seen such a beast!

 

[Ganoderma]

found another pretty good site. Japanese with some goo denglish info.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wp5k-tnd/stagbeetle.html