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No wings visible

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Wingless adults, wingless castes, larvae and nymphs — photographed in Sabah and Sarawak.

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What is filed here

Insects photographed with no wings showing. Some never grow wings; some had not grown them yet; and in ants and a few other groups only the queens and males ever fly. The folder records what the photograph showed, not what the animal is.

Looking for ants or stick insects? Both groups appear in more than one wing-count folder, so they have their own indexes that reach across all three: Ants of Tawau and Borneo and Stick insects of Sabah.

Picture galleries

Caterpillars

Eleven caterpillars photographed in the Tawau district, several of them stinging species.

Centipedes

Not insects but myriapods — kept here because they turn up in the same leaf litter.

Woodworms

Family Anobiidae — the beetle larvae that bore through seasoned timber.

Eggs of insects

Egg masses and single eggs found on leaves and bark, photographed before hatching.

Field records

Single observations, each with the date, the place, the photograph and an honest statement of how far the identification can be taken.

Back to the whole section

Insects of Borneo — the main index, with the groups that span the wing-count key: true bugs, stick insects and ants.