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🇭🇰bug boy. He/they 🏳️‍🌈

The anime cover for “Cherry Magic: 30 years of virginity can make you a wizard?!). Our protagonists in office attire are walking together in front of cherry blossoms while two characters are behind them.
Cover of “School trip: joined a group I’m not close to”. Under a sky blue filter, two boys in school uniform staring at each other inside a classroom, One with black hair sits on a table, while the standing brunette has his right arm next to the other boy, holding onto a railing.
Book cover of 月食奇譚 Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart. A boy in glasses (Hoshino) is seen holding the unconscious body of a short boy (Yamada), with a long rope surrounding their necks and hand. A noose and a lunar eclipse is seen above Hoshino’s head.
cover for the “Go for it! Nakamura” anime. A flustered boy with a bowl cut? in Japanese school uniform puts his right hand at the chest and his left hand clenching on his bag. Behind him is the face of the main interest with short, curly chestnut hair and big brown eyes, framed in a heart. Next to them are other characters in the show framed in a star shape.
A bright green bush cricket/katydid with large, leaf-like wings, covering its body besides the head and limbs. The wingtips of the insect incline upwards, making it look much like a leaf from the side. and its wings have 2 small brown patches on it.
Ink drawing of the stag beetle Odontolabis alces.
To Up close photo of peculiar looking, cicada-like insects on a tree (only one in focus). It has wings with a black base but dense, green venation, making them essentially green. The wings have yellow spots bordered in white. This red-bodied insect has a long rostrum with white spots over its schnozz.
A magpie with a long tail. It has blue body and a black head, there’s a thick white stripe along its head. Almost like a stroke of a paint brush. It has red legs and beak. It stands on the root of a tree, with an earthworm in its beak.
A posable toy of the pterosaur Dearc sgiathanach, a rhamphorhynchid pterosaur with a long snout and exposed, conical teeth.
Screen of a presentation titled “Women in Science: The Invisible Women and Their Dinosaurs” in a lecture hall
Diagonal view of a large, black beetle with three long horns protruding outwards then curving towards each other, one on the head and the other on its prothorax. It has a metallic blue sheen, particularly prominent at the margins of its elytra.
Top view of black rhinoceros beetle with relatively small horns. It has a spoon-shaped cephalic horn and two prong-like thoracic horns facing forward. It has a purple sheen.
A bright green katydid with wing buds. Her legs are spiny, has an ovipositor, and the pronotum is lined in white.
A small, hairy spider (tarantula) in a vial, submerged in alcohol.
A messy ink drawing of a robustly shaped weevil. It has club-like antennae and three thick black stripes on its pronotum.
A tiny (2mm) brown scorpion-like bug (with no tail) on the side of my index finger
A male stag beetle with a black head. It has short, curved mandibles. Its pronotum and the centre of its elytra are blood red. It has an orange border on its elytra, and between the two colours is black.
A pale green moth with long “tails” on each hindwing. It rests upside down on a tree.
The entrance of Insect Jungle inside a garage. It has glass doors with beetle posters plastered all over the entrance.
Top view of a splayed specimen of a shiny black stag beetle with a small, trapezoid head. It has large mandibles which curve slightly and end with around 5 serrations
A marker drawing of a rhinoceros beetle with a bulky body. It has large, conical thoracic horns protruding parallel to its cephalic horn, with has an inner “tooth” pointing outwards and ends with a fork.
A red stick insect with a flat abdomen and lobed legs (leaf insect). It stands idle among brown and green leaf litter.
Rusty brown, long bodied cicada with transparent wings with a few spots. It is on a white sheet.
A tan moth with a large body and long wingspan. It has a dark brown thorax, body and base of wing. At the middle section of the forewing and the apical margins of the hind wing creates of dark brown, somewhat straight border. It has eye spots at the lower end of its forewings. It has a large patch of pink on each of its hindwings.
Top view of a shiny black stag beetle with orange oval patches on its elytra. Its head has a bump on each side and mandibles expand outwards in a straight line and curve inwards, with “teeth” only at the end.
A flat jumping spider when a metallic purple sheen. Its body is covered in shiny gold patches. It has enlarged forearms
A very large moth, with a missing left forewing. The right forewing tip is gone, its wings have turned a drab brown, its pink lines at the middle section of the wings still remain, and it has white triangles at each centre of its three remaining wings. The moth is as big as my hand which I placed next to.
City Observations Species People Cochabamba, Bolivia 109,423 7,134 3,230 San Antonio Metro Area, United States of America 133,953 5,409 2,632 Hong Kong, China 37,571 5,033 1,110 Graz bis zum Vulkanland, Austria 52,591 4,830 487 Area Metropolitana La Paz, Bolivia 148,865 4,721 3,321 Dallas/Fort Worth, United States of America 72,035 4,339 1,853 Houston-Galveston, United States of America 45,062 4,202 1,228 Macao SAR, China, China 64,664 4,183 1,009
A grey horseshoe crab with a shed facing diagonally on its abdomen, like a pair of horseshoe crabs mating. They are on sand.
A ghost crab with a deep red, boxy body and white, warty claws. It has eyes with slit pseudopupils and long horns coming from the top of its eyes.
A white moth with an orange border along its wings. It has beige stripes which run along its wings and sharp, swallow-like protrusions on its hindwings.
A beige moth with straight, thin wings spread horizontally, making it resemble a T with the vertical component being much wider than the horizontal. It hindwings, lined up with its body, is light-coloured and veined like a leaf.
Diagonal view stag beetle with a trapezoid prothorax, in metallic green and purple. Its small head boasts long, metallic gold/green mandibles which arch upwards, with two shorter spines under its long curved mandibles. It also has freakishly long legs.
A black tiger moth with pale pink wings. It has a longitudinal black bar on its wings. (Creatonotos fasciatus)
Top view of a light tan moth with its wings in resting position. The first half of its forewings are covered in thin, mottled green-ish marks, with a black-banded costal margin. It is bordered by a thin black mark, in the shape of a very wide U across its forewings, lined with an another thin, dirty brown outside of the inner layer of the forewings. Near the costal margin, after the black border is a metallic blue, spine-like mark which protrudes downwards on each wing. A black (lined w metallic green) 7-shaped mark the border of the apical region on each wing. There is a brown spot just on top of each 7.
A very large moth, with a missing left forewing. The right forewing tip is gone, its wings have turned a drab brown, its pink lines at the middle section of the wings still remain, and it has white triangles at each centre of its three remaining wings. The moth is as big as my hand which I placed next to.
Side profile grey, mottled mantis with a cylindrical body. on the brown branch of a tree, under a background of dead ferns.
Ink drawing of a black stag beetle. In the inner part of its mandibles is a rhombus-shaped “shield”. It arches outwards, ending in a small “fork” and little bits of teeth.
A typical looking darkling beetle with red leg. It has a tall-ish, brown body with little bumps all over its pronotum and elytra.
A tan-coloured molt of a small horseshoe crab. It is rotund and spiny.
A blurry photo of a butterfly with large black angled forewings. It has yellow hindwings.
A yellow beetle with equally long, black thoracic and cephalic horns. The thoracic horns is nearly as long as the body. Its elytra has black wrinkly marks.
Front view of an orange/brown ant. It has large “angry” eyes like that of a wasp on its triangular head and slender, toothed mandibles. It has long antennae spread sideways. It has a thorax shaped like a stubby spoon (with the head being the front part) and a short bulbous abdomen.
portrait of a black tiger beetle with large protruding eyes. I has legs with red femora.
A yellow rhinoceros beetle with moderately sized and equal thoracic and cephalic horns, coloured in black.
A slender fly with spines protruding out of its thorax. Its red eyes branch out from its head like a hammerhead shark.
moth with metallic blue head, limbs and antenna. Marks of metallic blue scales can also be found on its black wings.
A white poster with life-size photos of the world’s largest beetles, including rhinoceros, stag, longhorn, ladybird, ground, click etc. beetles and weevils.below is a regular calendar of 2025.
Side view of a slender, metallic blue wasp with a narrow tube-like petiole. It has a round head and fine white hairs all over its body.
A larva of a beetle. The main body is lined with “plates”, which is extended by a thin semitransparent layer, forming the shape of an oval.
Satellite image of Hong Kong. Green spaces are circled, which they are evidently hilly.
“If Canada has a housing crisis, why don't they build houses within the red circle?” THE TWEET HAS 122K LIKES! ARE PEOPLE THIS STUPID?
Yellow tussock moth caterpillar with two longitudinal black stripes. There are transverse rings of blue dots around the caterpillar’s body. White tufts of setae are found on its body and two diagonal black tufts of setae can be found on the back of the head. Trabala pallida
“Collecting and selling is not considered reselling... The overhunting of stag beetles and rhinoceros beetles is something that Japanese people are also doing both at home and abroad (in fact, the Japanese were the pioneers), so this is a painful thing to hear for entomologists.”
Translation: “Chinese people are collecting large numbers of rhinoceros beetles while traveling in Hokkaido and reselling them online. These guys will resell anything. If things continue like this, rhinoceros beetles will become extinct.”
A suspiciously cylinder-shaped moth. It is a metallic, silvery moth with a small head positioned downwards. There are two black bands lined in silver/gold running across its wings. It rests on a pink daisy-like flower.
A large chafer beetle with a black pronotum and scutellum and white elytra with one vertical red line on each elytron. There are 5 plastic cups with 5 eggs and dirt in each.
5 insects on a paper towel. Two are dull black rhinoceros beetles, with reddish brown fur and small horns. There is one small, shiny black rhinoceros beetle with no horn. Then there is one big black carpenter bee and blue mud dauber wasp.
(Spinner) dolphins with erect, less-falcated dorsal fins and a sharp snout. Along the back there is a darker shade of grey running through its body.
flight ticket from Malé to Kooddoo