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When it comes to flies, many of us immediately associate them, often wrongly, with annoyance and diseases. However, not all flies fit...

There are over 6000 species of biting midge, small flies in the family Ceratopogonidae (Newman, 1834) - more than all mammal species -...

When we hear the term “true bugs”, we may immediately connect it to those stink bugs (the Pentatomidae family) which are well-known for...

In the insect world, there is a type of clown wearing colourful clothes with green 🟢, yellow 🟡 and red colours 🔴. They are called...

If you are an avid reader of our posts, you may have realized that at the HKBM, we like to bring your attention to organisms that may go...

Nature is full of sounds, especially during the hot season. Some, however, are more distinct to our ears and you are probably familiar...

You may have noticed bedbugs have made the news as of late with terms like “infestation” “outbreak” or “out-of-control” regularly in the...

You may think that dancing is an activity reserved to humans, but if you read our posts for long enough, you already suspect that we will...

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

🐜 𝘛𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘮 (Fabricius, 1793) is a species of ant. The name comes from the Greek for “low” (because...

Welcome back to the amazing world of ants 🐜! Many ant species around the world have independently evolved towards a particular type of...

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

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

‘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...

People often say, "rare is precious". It is true that observing uncommon species brings excitement to many nature lovers, but the beauty...

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...

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

Imagine a butterfly that can transform into a dead leaf whenever it needs to disappear—meet the Orange Oakleaf butterfly 𝘒𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢...

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...

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...