Gavin Broadさんのイラストまとめ

#InsectOfTheDay no.348. The Silver Widow, Palpopleura vestita. Saturday is the time for beautiful Madagascan dragonflies.

#InsectOfTheDay no.336. Bombus kashmirensis, a bumblebee of the Himalayas. Using this and several other species at an event tonight. A beautiful bumblebee in habitats being squeezed by grazing pressure and climate change.

#InsectOfTheDay no.324. It has clubbed antennae and looks like a skipper butterfly, but it's not, it's an Australian castniid moth, Synemon plana.

#InsectOfTheDay no.320. There haven't been enough giant cockroches in this series, so here's the Brazilian Monachoda grossa.

#InsectOfTheDay no.312. A quick rummage through some NHM drawers, and have I found the twiggiest stick insect? Echetlus peristhenes, the Western Australian Slender Stick Insect.

#InsectOfTheDay no.304. Big beautiful ichneumonid wasp, that I described in 2010: Umanella giacometti. Part of ongoing collaboration with @ilarisaaksjarvi documenting tropical ich diversity. Appropriate name chosen by competition to celebrate opening of DC2 @NHM_London!

#InsectOfTheDay no.291. Apterobittacus apterus, a North American hangingfly (Mecoptera: Bittacidae) so lacking in wings it's referenced in the genus and species names. Close up of the very grippy hind tarsus.

#InsectOfTheDay no.290. Yesterday's wasp had no mandibles, today's has a head that's about half mandibles. An alysiine braconid, Ilatha pulchripennis. Alysiine mandibles are specialised for emerging from Diptera puparia.

#InsectOfTheDay no.278. Notiothauma reedi, the only extant species of the mecopteran family Eomeropidae. Found in Chile, and has a really stern-looking face. Weird flattened relatives of scorpionflies, mostly known from fossils.

#InsectOfTheDay no.259. A silky lacewing, Psychopsis coelivaga. Australian representative of Psychopsidae, small family nowadays, more diverse in fossil record (and sadly not in Britain). Also the fluffiest lacewing I've ever seen.