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Post by biglavalamp on Aug 7, 2021 19:28:07 GMT
I do not collect insects but enjoy seeing them on this thread
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 6, 2021 20:06:41 GMT
From the Europa 2021 Ireland issues, this self-adhesive stamp showing a white prominent moth:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 8, 2021 19:37:18 GMT
Souvenir sheet from Mauritius showcasing various cicada species:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 9, 2021 5:26:36 GMT
Souvenir sheet from Ireland featuring the seven-spotted ladybug:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 10, 2021 5:24:27 GMT
Souvenir sheet from Micronesia showing a dragonfly:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 15, 2021 5:42:19 GMT
Issue from French Polynesia showing a local cicada species:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 15, 2021 20:15:19 GMT
I also received today a set of stamps featuring bees. Mostly wallpaper issues that most TSFers would scoff at, so I won't show them here. But this one, with "Posta PMR" has me stumped. Can anybody point me to which (likely) former Soviet Republic this stamp would come from?
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 21, 2021 15:49:05 GMT
Mystery solved, "PMR" stands for Приднестровская Молдавская Республика, i.e. Dniestr Moldovan Republic, better known as Transnistria, an un-recognized breakaway republic from Moldova. Thanks to a Russian colleague for telling me...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 23, 2021 18:47:27 GMT
The latest semi-postal booklet from Canada featuring fireflies:
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Post by imperialwaltzing on Sept 24, 2021 16:36:25 GMT
1953 Portuguese Guinea - Beetles
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 25, 2021 20:56:55 GMT
From the Europa 2021 Cyprus issue on the theme of endangered species, the local honeybee:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 8, 2021 23:16:50 GMT
Sheetlet of insect stamps issued by the DRC in 2013:
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Post by salentin on Jan 6, 2022 12:33:46 GMT
hrdoktorx had shown the upper stamp before,showing a migratory locust. (issued Oct.6th,1969) The full set shows how it is tried to eliminate this plague. I remember to have watchted on television (?),how people in more southernly parts of Afrika use the locusts as a major source of proteins.Probably a better way to deal with them.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 9, 2022 12:50:26 GMT
hrdoktorx had shown the upper stamp before, showing a migratory locust. (issued Oct.6th,1969)
The full set shows how it is tried to eliminate this plague. I remember to have watched on television (?),how people in more southernly parts of Afrika use the locusts as a major source of protein. Probably a better way to deal with them.
I actually also showed the other two, but in the "Aircraft" thread. Thanks for bringing them back together. As for locusts as a source of protein, I saw their harvesting in Cameroon. The locusts would gather at streetside lampposts in very large amounts and people would come in with buckets to catch them. Then eat them fried.
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Post by brightonpete on Jan 9, 2022 14:02:37 GMT
Fried locusts would be good! I've had fried crickets, they were pretty good. Just rare to find them these days, even though there are cricket farmers apparently all over!
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Post by brightonpete on Jan 9, 2022 14:04:39 GMT
Just a q, hrdoktorx ... with those self adhesives, like that Irish moth, do you leave the excess backing paper on, or trim it down? I'd be wont to trim, but would it make a difference?
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 9, 2022 14:36:44 GMT
I keep the backing paper as it was. Sometimes, when I get a self-adhesive stamp that's still sticky even after separating it from the original envelope, I cut a piece of glassine envelope and stick it on that before putting it in my stockbooks.
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Post by salentin on Jan 9, 2022 16:17:10 GMT
I only had insects once for a meal.In Korea they sold silk-caterpillar-soup almost at every corner. So I had a try.Tasted somewhat fishy,but not impressive.To bite on the (hard) heads gave a rather strange sensation.
I think the locusts in Zambia,I guess it was Zambia,were made into a kind of paste,what could be stored for some time. So they could use a lot,when the locusts appeared and could eat them in weeks and months thereafter.
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Post by salentin on Jan 9, 2022 16:23:47 GMT
Anopheles,probably the most often featured insect on stamps.
Issued Oct.5th.1961.Set and s.s. exist perforated and imperforated.
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Post by salentin on Jan 14, 2022 12:54:19 GMT
Anopheles and swamp-landscape,issued Sept.5th,1962 From a set of 11.Exists perforated and imperforated. There are two souvenir sheets,also perforated and imperforated:
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Post by salentin on Jan 17, 2022 18:38:36 GMT
A perforated set of 6 and an imperforated set of 5 values with the same two designs exist. The s.s. exist in one version only. Issued March 15th,1964.
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Post by JeffS on Jan 19, 2022 17:17:50 GMT
Perhaps this will make an amusing addition to my Insect Enemies in my Oranges Philately collection.
I am not good at "old German" typeface. The best I came up with is
"Uecht Franck with the coffee grinder the fine addition to every coffee drink" apparently a coffee extract, from what I have been able to piece together from a few online sources.
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Post by salentin on Jan 22, 2022 13:55:20 GMT
A mixed set of dragonflies and butterflies,issued April 21st,1966.
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Post by salentin on Jan 28, 2022 13:28:43 GMT
Anopheles again,likely the most often featured insect on postage stamps.
Issued June 20th,1962.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 14, 2022 22:12:48 GMT
Set of four insect stamps from Tanzania:
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Post by salentin on Feb 23, 2022 14:40:45 GMT
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Post by salentin on Mar 3, 2022 13:53:44 GMT
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Post by salentin on Mar 13, 2022 8:27:42 GMT
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Post by salentin on Mar 20, 2022 17:08:44 GMT
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Post by salentin on Mar 27, 2022 5:54:26 GMT
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