Beetles of Borneo
The largest and most diverse order of insects. Forty-three families are listed further down this page.
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Beetles, butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, crickets, grasshoppers, mantids and cicadas.
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The largest of the three folders — beetles, butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, crickets, grasshoppers, mantids and cicadas. Most adult insects have two pairs of wings, so this is where most of the section lives.
The largest and most diverse order of insects. Forty-three families are listed further down this page.
Butterflies recorded in the Tawau district and beyond.
Ninety photographs, including the Atlas moth — among the largest in the world by wing area.
Honeybees in Sabah, including Apis dorsata, the giant wild honeybee.
Including the fig wasps, and a crown wasp with a 32 mm ovipositor.
The ambush predators of the forest edge — 161 photographs, the most extensively documented group in this section.
Fifty-nine photographs of Orthoptera from the Tawau district and across Sabah.
Family Gryllidae — flat bodies, long antennae, jumping hind legs, and harmless.
The insects behind the afternoon and evening chorus of the Bornean rainforest.
43 families, listed alphabetically by common name with the scientific family beside it. Start at Beetles of Borneo for the overview.
Groups outside the nine above that are also filed here.
Single observations, each with the date, the place and the photograph.
Three sets of pages sit in this folder for historical reasons. They are listed so nothing is lost, but their proper homes are elsewhere on the site.
Insects of Borneo — the main index, with the groups that span the wing-count key: true bugs, stick insects and ants.