Inspired by @Florallle 's World Birds’ Postcard List, I wanted to create a place for us to share some more creatures who really delight us: ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, cicadas, crickets, dragonflies, damselflies, grasshoppers, katydids, leaf bugs, mantids, moths, and more! Insects are our tiny, delicate partners helping to make so much of our world possible, and they need our support now more than ever.
So let’s share the postcards we have sent and received with insects. If you know anything about the insect, please tell us!
I can start it off with this postcard I received from Japan today:
Illustrated card showing on the left Prosopocoilus inclinatus, the Japanese stag beetle or Kawagatamushi, found in Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Sado Island, Tsushima, Yaku Island, and the Korean peninsula. On the right is the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, kabutomushi カブトムシ. Mushi is Japanese for insect, and kabuto is Japanese for helmet, literally referring to the samurai helmet.
Update: Welcome to add other Arthropods including crabs, crustaceans, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, horseshoe crabs and others!