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Latest Images


	Chocolate Cockroaches
	Twilight of the Cockroaches
	Super-size Orthoptera (Fragrant Hills Park, Beijing)
	Giant Mantis (Fragrant Hills Park, Beijing)
	Live Crickets in Cages (Fragrant Hills Park, Beijing)
	Grass Crickets and Mantids (Fragrant Hills Park, Beijing)
	Rwanda Stamp (Phymaetus brunneri)
	Entomology not Etymology: Wrong Superhero
	UK Mole Cricket Stamp
	Australia Green Mantid Stamp

Latest Jokes

How many cockroaches does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Can't tell, when the light goes on, they scatter.

Why is it better to be a grasshopper than a cricket?

Because grasshoppers can play cricket but crickets can't play grasshopper!

A grasshopper walks into a bar. The bar tender says to him, "Hey we have drink named after you." The grasshopper replies, "You have a drink named Murry?"

Why would you swallow a grasshopper?

So you could have internal locust of control.

What is green and can jump a mile in a minute?

A grasshopper with hiccups.

What do you get when you cross a praying mantis with a termite?

A bug that says grace before eating your house.

Latest Other Stuff


Grashopper Mask From Etsy: Leather Grasshopper Mask via Heather Bonney
Plates from Wonders of the Insect World by Edmund Selous. I picked up a copy of this book from the Sanctuary Book Shop in Lyme Regis. Orthopterous plates are reproduced below. The front of this copy has a book plate indicating it was awarded as a prize in July 1914 from The Lickey Hills School.
Mild winter brings no moral lesson for lazy grasshopper Comical post from The Daily Mash: Mild winter brings no moral lesson for lazy grasshopper
The Midsummer Chronophage Clock built using a grasshopper escapement on display at the Science Museum. The "demonic" creature on the top represents a time-eating grasshopper Scan of postcard featuring the chronophage bought at the Science Museum.
Pretty pictures Preparing to jump View more presentations from Renny
Egyptian Mantids Praying mantis from the Tomb of Hesi at Saqqara) from Evans, 2004 (also attached below).
Cockroaches on the radio waves Judith Marshall talks cockroaches on XFM with Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. Shame they got her name wrong.....
Phil Bragg talks Cockroaches
Terminex Live Cockroach Billboard See the article at Dallas Observer: Clearly, The Most Popular Billboard in Dallas Today is the One Filled With Living Cockroaches Image by Jesse Sidlauskas
The Grashopper, Amsterdam Cigarette Lighter In the collection of Ed Baker. Gift from Geoff Martin. Originally at: Flickr.

Grashopper Mask

From Etsy: Leather Grasshopper Mask

via Heather Bonney