The Natural Stuff

Sumatran Invertebrates


A small flatworm

A hammerhead flat worm

An odd looking slug that did not pocess slime

A leather back slug

A leather back slug

A flat millipede

A white backed flat millipede

A large pill millipede

A giant pill millipede

A small stick insect

A small stick insect

A winged stick insect

A stick insect

A freshly moulted bush cricket

A pale bush cricket

Caterpillar

Noctuid moth larvae

Plume moth

A large scalloped moth

One of the tiger butterflies

Butterfly

Striped blue crow

A very nice large bug

A purple dragon fly

A red dragon fly

A fern cicada

A large mealy bug

An assasin bug with a tiny beetle prey

Mottled cicada

A giant flat snail

A bug called chrysocoris stolli

Common fire bugs

A glow worm beetle

Two types of glow worms fire off at night

Green chafer

Little spotted turtle beetle

A porcelain leaf beetle

Silouetted jewel beetle on a banana leaf

A banana weevil

A leaf weevil on the camp roof

This was one of many dung beetles

Seed weevil

Large leaf beetle

A small longhorn beetle

A small longhorn tended by ants

A large beetle larvae

A golden stag beetle

Delta winged leaf bug

A crane fly

We found several of these pretty caddis flies

A stalk-eyed fly

Ants rule the forests

A Malaysian ant

Malaysian dragonfly

Ants in the jungle often live freely under large leaves

Wild Sumatran bees

Grasshopper

Cricket

Mole cricket

Camouflaged cricket

Yellow Malaysian grasshopper

Cyclosid spider

Common orchard spider

A blue leaf beetle on tropical groundsel

A giant huntsman spider

A frog mimicking crab spider

Tiny mygalomorph

Green harvestman

Blue harvestman

Red harvestman

A yellow harvestman

Seed or frass mimicking beetle

A cockroach nymph

A fern cicada

A few ants deal with a moth larvae

A Gasteracantha spider

A glow worm beetle

A glow worm caught in a jar

A millipede

A mimicking arachnid

A small longhorn beetle

A solitary wasp

A tiny spider

A very nice bush cricket

A wax winged moth

Another large longhorn attracted to light

Common sulphur butterfly

Large longhorn beetles often came to light

Little skippers are common and a range of similar looking species

Metalic soldier fly

There were so many cockroach species

Two hunting spiders on the leaf litter

This giant weevil had tiny ants living inside it