Unusual insects

[Dark Raptor]

The spring is coming!!!!!!
Adalia bipunctata - Coccinellidae

...and flower power!

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[CustomNature]

Oooooooooooooo I just realized that this thread has been running for well over a year! Woo hoo!

 

[Dark Raptor]

Oooooooooooooo I just realized that this thread has been running for well over a year! Woo hoo!

Hmmm this is very long time. I've check this thread again and found how my photographic skills were evolving

So... my latest pics. As you see the spring is really close.

Musca domestica

Lucilia caesar

Lasius niger

Apis mellifera

Curculionidae

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[Dark Raptor]

...and few more

Carabidae

Coccinella septempunctata

Homoptera

Geotrupes stercorarius

and snail with hairs

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[juggernaut]

your photos are profound

have any mantid dragonfly centpede or tarantula photos?

 

[Dark Raptor]

have any mantid dragonfly centpede or tarantula photos?

Only few, old and not the best pics of my S. gastrica and H. membranacea (I think I posted them in this thread). There are also few dragonfly pics there. I didn't take any pics of centipedes, except Lithobius forficatus.
...and tarantuas? Check the link in my signature

 

[Scorpfanatic]

hi.. got boired the other day and started exploring here.. so heres a few of my pics. i dono if they really belong here, so jus trying my luck., ;P

 

[prankster705]

looks like mantis religiosa (I think - I'm no mantid expert though.).

 

[Scorpfanatic]

looks like mantis religiosa (I think - I'm no mantid expert though.).

thats the only common mantis i see ard here in my country, another one look alost the same but full brown

 

[HuonHengChai]

I donno what on earth is it but it's looks like a weird spider

 

[Gigas]

I donno what on earth is it but it's looks like a weird spider

Woah is it some kind of harvest amn or Super mite!, where does it come from???

 

[Dark Raptor]

Woah is it some kind of harvest amn or Super mite!, where does it come from???

Yup, it belongs to Opiliones

This Gasteracantha spider is fantastic!

 

[Carlos.e]

Dark Raptor, how do you collect the silphid and the carabid beetles?

 

[HuonHengChai]

thank you so much for the answer. now i've learn something new.
I found it in the forest reserve in Sabah, Malaysia.
didnt took it home, just took a picture of it.

 

[Dark Raptor]

Dark Raptor, how do you collect the silphid and the carabid beetles?

I search for carrion. Silphid beetles loves small mammals but you can find them on larger animals. They also fly when it gets dark.
For Carabidae I use pitfall traps or look under stones, pieces of wood ect. Larger species are active during the night.

just took a picture of it.

I don't see the picture.

 

[HuonHengChai]

This one

 

[Dark Raptor]

This one

Oups, now I got it. I didn't understand you correctly and thought that you wanted to show another picture for identification. My mistake

 

[Carlos.e]

What do you use as bait in the pitfalls for carabids?
I've heard that people uses vinager.

Thanks.

 

[Dark Raptor]

What do you use as bait in the pitfalls for carabids?
I've heard that people uses vinager.

Generally I use traps without bait (I don't catch only carabid beetles, but all epigeic arthropodes). You can also use carrion, sometimes Carabidae fall there in large numbers.

 

[Curry]

Dark Raptor: AMAZING Photos!

I dont have any "live" ones but I do have quite a few that I am collecting and mounting.

I have hundreds more that are still in my closet!