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Photos of insects in Madagascar [updated 2009-11-16]



Calendars


Chameleons of Madagascar - 12-month calendar



Herps of Madagascar - 12-month calendar



Lemurs of Madagascar - 12-month calendar



Madagascar - 18-month calendar



Madagascar Calendar - 12-month calendar



Madagascar Calendar II - 12 months by mongabay



Wildlife of Madagascar - 12-month calendar


Budget Calendars




Neon green, turquoise, purple, red, and orange grasshopper



Dry grass-colored praying mantis (possibly Idolomorpha madagascariensis [Empusidae])



mantid yellow



Red and black bugs



Orange and black bug



Worm in a protective case



Phromnia rosea (fuschia colored insects) (Isalo)



Rainbow locust



Green Mantid (Ranomafana N.P.)



Dung beetle in Madagascar



Yellow-speckled Cleonine weevil (genus Lixus - Curculionidae family)



Giraffe-necked weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa)



Flatid leaf bug nymphs, resembling white lichen



Moth



Graphium cyrnum, a common buterfly in Masoala/ Nosy Mangabe



Mantid Purple Antenna



Stunningly colorful grasshopper



Butterfly



Comet moth with damaged wings



Red dragonfly



Polybothris Jewel beetle (family Buprestidae)



Pink and purple Homopteran, probably a Flatid or a Fulgorid bug, with huge eyes; this is a nymph that has JUST molted



Raspberry dragnofly



Metallic Jewel beetle (family Buprestidae)



Red millipede compared with size of hand



Grey moth



Orange and black leafhopper



Butterfly



Leaf Insect (Ranomafana N.P.)



Baby yellow and black grasshoppers



Cicada (Manambolo)



Flatid Leaf Bugs Adult (Andasibe)



Dragonfly tsingy canyon (Tsingy de Bemaraha)



Insect



Hairy black caterpillars



Brilliant green beetle [Tortoise beetle of the Chrysomelidae family]



Green caterpillar - Rhagastis lambertoni, Sphingidae family



Straw-like grasshopper



Cricket



Green pill millipede rolled in ball



Green beetle with an orange head



Moth



Green pill millipede rolled in palm of hand



Insect resembling a partially chewed leaf (Masoala NP)



Polybothris Jewel beetle (family Buprestidae)



Dark gray moth with yellow markings and blue-green spots



Mating butterflies



Green caterpillar



Leaf Insect (Ranomafana N.P.)



Phromnia rosea insect nymphs (Nosy Mangabe)



Juvenile insect, not the giraffe-neck weevil



Rainbow Bush Locust (Phymateus saxosus)



Gasteracanthinae spider-maybe Madacantha nossibeana (Masoala NP)



Multicolored katydid



Masoala peninsula beetle



Brown mantid at Isalo



Raspberry dragonfly



Leaf-mimicking treehopper



Hissing cockroach in Madagascar



Red-orange insect (Dyserdycus genus) in the Pyrrhocoridae family (true bugs)



Dry grass-colored mantis (possibly Idolomorpha madagascariensis [Empusidae])



Green grasshopper



Brown Praying Mantis (Phyllocrania paradoxa)



Swallowtail butterfly



Orange and blue planthopper



Stick insect



Longhorn Beetle in flight with guide Armand (Nosy Mangabe)



Green praying mantis




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