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Photos of insects in Madagascar [updated 2013-02-13]



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




Unknown moth



Hissing cockroach in Madagascar



Cricket



Leaf Insect (Ranomafana N.P.)



Red dragonfly



Insect



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



Butterfly



black dragonfly (Manambolo)



Giraffe-necked weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa)



Butterfly



Black moth with orange and green spots



Brilliant green beetle [Tortoise beetle of the Chrysomelidae family]



Butterfly



Blue planthopper



Yellow and black grasshopper



Stick Mantid (Ranomafana N.P.)



Green Mantid (Ranomafana N.P.)



Flatid leaf bug nymphs; tree trunk (Tsingy de Bemaraha)



Giraffe weevil



Polybothris Jewel beetle (family Buprestidae)



Hairy black caterpillars



Green stick insect



Green mantid



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



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



Black, yellow, and blue caterpillar



Andasibe Mantid (female)



Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae)



Phromnia rosea insect nymphs (Nosy Mangabe)



Flatid leaf bug nymphs, resembling white lichen



Swallowtail butterfly



Mantid Purple Antenna



Red and black bugs



Yellow and orange beetle (Coptemia celata)



Blue, yellow, black, and red caterpillar



Caterpillar



Polybothris jewel beetle



Thorn spider (Acrosomoides acrosomoides) (Masoala NP)



Beige Ground Mantis (Tarachodes sp)



Madagascar moth with an orange marking on its back



Spider eating a red leafhopper



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



Rainbow locust



Red Bug (immature nymph, which lacks full wings)



Katydid



Green pill millipede rolled in palm of hand



Dung beetle in Madagascar



Red millipede compared with size of hand



Katydid



Mating butterflies



Yellow and pink caterpillar



Walking stick insect



Brown Praying Mantis (Phyllocrania paradoxa)



Insect



Mossy stick insect



Yellow scorpion (Manambolo)



Katydid



Green beetle with an orange head



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



Yellow and pink caterpillar



Stick insect



Stick insect



Black moth with orange and green spots



Thorn spider (gasteracanthinae sub-family, probably Madacantha nossibeana) (Masoala NP)



Crematogaster ant trail going up the trunk of a canopy tree



Baby yellow and black grasshoppers



Orange-eyed grasshopper



aquatic insect in hand (Nepidae, probably nepa) (Kirindy)



Mating orange, red, and black bugs



Butterfly (Aterica rabena)



Camouflaged caterpillar




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