优雅蝈螽 (Gampsocleis gratiosa)
The great green singer of northern China Among green leaves, a large katydid sat in plain sight, trusting its colour to hide it. It was …
花萤属 (Cantharis sp.)
A soft-bodied beetle in soldier colours Black with orange markings on the head and thorax, this beetle looked like a small soldier in uniform. Its …
双突尖头大蚊 (Brithura nymphica)
The harmless giant of the fly world At first glance it looks like a mosquito with ambitions: a large, slender body and legs so long …
东北白蜡蝉 (Limois kikuchii)
Waxy wings and a taste for sap It held its wings like a little tent, patterned and translucent, looking more like a small moth than …
草螽亚科 (Conocephalinae)
Small green heads in the grass Hidden among green stems, these little katydids were easy to walk past. They were small, slender and green, with …
两点赤锯锹甲藏东南亚种 (Prosopocoilus astacoides kachinensis)
A stag beetle that sat on my hand and stayed On the second of July in Medog, I turned around to find this stag beetle …
阿萨姆环锹甲 (Cyclommatinus assamensis)
A striped stag beetle in the palm of my hand On the first of July in Medog, this stag beetle allowed itself to be photographed …
唇沟蝉 (Graptotettix guttatus)
A black-and-orange cicada resting by a rock wall Medog, 30 June. On a green leaf in front of a rough gray rock face sat a …
阿萨姆环锹甲指名亚种 (Cyclommatinus assamensis assamensis)
A stag beetle on pale ground The ground was pale and granular, like dried white clay, when something big and glossy broke up its blankness. …
Lucanus lunifer franciscae
A moon-marked stag beetle, up close It clambered across my hand without hurry, deep brown and glossy, with long antennae and heavy curved front legs …
花生大蟋 (Tarbinskiellus portentosus)
A heavyweight cricket on the grey concrete It sat on the bare concrete in the late June heat of Medog, so still that I nearly …
皮氏粉猎蝽 (Platerus pilcheri)
A banded assassin on white netting Against the white mesh of a drying net, the pattern was impossible to miss: a long insect banded in …