some new photos of insects [View all]

[mike_c]

Now that I'm retired I'm finding more time to get caught up on some personal projects, including the insect photos. I've been working on them, but I figured I'd post fewer so as not to burn us out! Here are some of the newest ones. Clicking on the photo will take you to the high resolution version on Smugmug.

This is a female giant Malaysian leaf insect:




Here is the giant metallic Ceiba borer from Central America and South America, Euchroma gigantea:




This is a male shining leaf chafer from Equador, Chrysophora chrysochlora:




Metaxymorpha apicalis is the glowing jewel beetle, Indonesia:




This is Megaloxantha bicolor assamensis, the bicolor jewel beetle of Thailand:




The insignis longhorn beetle, Sphingnotus insignis, is from Papua, New Guinea:




And last, a giant bamboo weavil, Cyrtotrachelus dux:




On second thought, here's a purple one, a violet morph Chrysochroa fulminans jewel beetle from Malaysia:



I hope you like them, and do check out the high res versions if you like detail!