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Specimen Showcase | Weaver Ants with Child Labor🐜👶🏻
The #WeaverAnt, genus 𝘖𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘭𝘭𝘢, is known for living in a nest made of leaves and silk, built in trees, but did you know that...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | A Sculpture by Red Imported Fire Ants
There is beauty in nature, even in the most unwanted organisms; so let’s take a new angle and appreciate those. Red Imported Fire Ants,...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | The Cuckoo Wasps
Wasps🐝are often represented as social insects living with their sisters and mother within a large carton-made nest; ready to fly and...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | 👻 Who You Gonna Call?
🐜 𝘛𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘮 (Fabricius, 1793) is a species of ant. The name comes from the Greek for “low” (because...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimens Showcase | The Golds in the Envelope
Having a wasp nest near our home or workplace is not exactly reassuring😱, but do you know that it is kind of safe to have it nearby?🤯...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Ants that Go SNAP! In the Woods
Welcome back to the amazing world of ants 🐜! Many ant species around the world have independently evolved towards a particular type of...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Buzzing Explorers
In the boundless meadows of Southern and Eastern Asia, a small but captivating creature takes the centre stage. Today we explore the...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Moon Goddess
🌜 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘦 (Hübner, 1807), the Indian moon or luna moth is a species of giant silk moth found in much of Asia. Selene...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | The Atlas Titan of Moths
Among our specimens, you can find #the_largest_moth in the world, which can also be found in the countryside of Hong Kong, among several...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Blue Stars of Tropical Forests
‘Twinkle twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are’. Have you ever looked upon the stars, and when the stars blink, poof, it is...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Survival of the Common Mormon!
People often say, "rare is precious". It is true that observing uncommon species brings excitement to many nature lovers, but the beauty...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase|The Bright-coloured Imposter🎭
What image would come to your mind when you think of moths? The impression of moths to many people is usually having dull, brown-grey...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase|The Majestic Migration of the Monarch
The Monarch butterfly 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘶𝘴 (Linnaeus, 1758), is one of the most well-known and admired butterfly species,...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Master of Camouflage
Imagine a butterfly that can transform into a dead leaf whenever it needs to disappear—meet the Orange Oakleaf butterfly 𝘒𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase|Picky Eater Drives Evolution
When the sun sets, a moth comes out to feed. With its long proboscis (the tube-like mouthparts observed in some insect species) and swift...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Mantis the Ripper
Did you notice how, as humans, we sometimes have a morbid fascination for gory stories such as the one of Jack the Ripper, the infamous...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Tuning Up to the Sound of Nature🔊
If the wings of butterflies are famous for their beautiful colors, similar to those of impressionist paintings, the wings of the...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase|Dragonfly Cousins or Insects Chimera?
During the early days of the rainy season in Hong Kong, it is inevitable that many flying insects will intrude indoors. Among these bugs,...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase|Pond Fairy
In the early summer evenings, if you wander around the streams or ponds, you may encounter small insects with a pair of big orange eyes....

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Sticks that Walk and Breath🌿
Have you ever seen a walking stick, the common name for the Phasmatodea insects? Chances are that you have encountered the...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10
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