Images Dated 2019 May

Stick insect, (Ctenomorpha chronus)

Stick insect, (Ctenomorpha chronus), resembling the twig of a eucalypt, can grow to 18 cm. Parthenogenetic, able to produce offspring without mating. The babies will all be female and genetically identical to each other and the mother. Tasmania, Australia

Australia Insects, Camouflage, Cryptic Coloration, Disguise, Insects, Parthenogenetic, Phasmatodea, Phasmatodia, Phasmid, Phasmids, Stick Insects

Confused flour beetles (Tribolium confusum)

Confused flour beetles (Tribolium confusum), infesting a store of grain. They are a serious pest of grain stored in warehouses, food stores, silos and home larders, not only for their feeding but because of their faecal pellets, stinking secretions and the fact that they encourage mould to grow. Japan

Japanese yellow hornet (Vespa simillima xanthoptera)

Japanese yellow hornet (Vespa simillima xanthoptera) parasitised by a female twisted-wing parasite (Xenos moutoni), that is seldom seen as it lives its life inside its host. The end of the parasite is protruding from the hornet's abdominal segments. Males live only five hours or so and do not eat. Japan