Insect Collection Set - 6 Insect Specimen Slide (in 6 square clear Lucite Block with a Magnifier)  SSDD74BG1

6 genuine different Insects (Bugs) permanently encased in clear lucite material (in 6 separate individual square block). The specimens are crystal clear, indestructible and transparent. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put living Bugs right at your fingertips!
Anyone can safely explore the Bugs from every angle.

It is clear enough for microscope observation.

There is a Magnifier in each set for close-up observation!

Size of each block is 75x75x9 mm (3x3x0.4 inch).

Weight of each block is 60 g.

Total weight of the whole set is 360 g and 520 g with packing box.

Size of the packing box : 181x121x35 mm (7.1x4.8x1.4 inch)

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

*** These insects are all from China.              

Centipede, Ghost Spider, Golden Scorpion        

Cockroach, Dragonfly, Honey Bee & Comb     

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Red Headed Centipede - Scolopendra subspinipes

Order: Scolopendromorpha   Family: Scolopendridae   Genus: Scolopendra

Scolopendra subspinipes is a species of centipede. The native range is uncertain. The certain natural range is Meganesia and Indomalaya. The species is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of Tropical and Subtropical Asia (including Russia), South and Central America, and the Caribbean. However, how much of this range is natural and how much due to human introduction is unclear.With such a wide geographic range, the species is known by a great many common names including Chinese Red Head, Giant Centipede, Jungle Centipede, Orange Legged Centipede, Red Headed Centipede and Vietnamese Centipede.

It is among the largest centipedes with a maximum length of 20 cm. They are active and aggressive, preying on almost everything that they can overwhelm.

It has colour variations. Its body is usually red or reddish brown with yellow or yellow-orange legs. In common with other members of genus Scolopendra, it has 21 body segments with each segment having one pair of legs attached. A pair of modified legs known as forcipules can be found on its head, which is covered by a flat shield and bears a pair of antennae. The forcipules are the major tools used by the centipede to kill its prey or for defense, as they have sharp claws that connect to venom glands. Centipedes breathe through the openings located along sides of their bodies. These openings are either round-shaped or S-shaped. They have simple eyes with poor vision, so they rely much on touch and their chemoreceptors.

American Cockroach - Periplaneta Americana

Order: Blattodea   Family: Blattidae   Genus: Periplaneta  Species: P. americana

The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), also known as the waterbug, or misidentified as the palmetto bug (see Florida woods cockroach for the differences), is the largest species of common cockroach, and often considered a pest. None of the Periplaneta species are endemic to the Americas; despite the name, P. americana was introduced to the United States from Africa as early as 1625. They are now common in tropical climates because human activity has extended the insect's range of habitation, and global shipping has transported the insects to world ports including the Southern United States, Canary Islands, southern Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Taiwan, India and South Africa.

Cockroaches date back to the Carboniferous period. Cockroaches are thought to have emerged on Pangaea, the original supercontinent, or on Gondwana, the daughter continent of Pangaea. The cockroach made many adaptations over millions of years to be able to survive the major die offs to which many species succumbed.

American cockroach adults grow to an average length of around 4 cm (1.6 in) and about 7 mm (0.28 in) tall. They are reddish brown and have a yellowish margin on the body region behind the head. Immature cockroaches resemble adults except they are wingless.

Asian Amberwing - Brachythemis contaminate

Order: Odonata   Suborder: Anisoptera   Superfamily: Libelluloidea   Family: Libellulidae   Genus: Brachythemis

Habitat: Common in ponds and streams.
Physical characteristics: Small size, orange-brown, wings are brownish-orange color and wing veins are orange. Female is yellow.

Found in Guandong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Peninsular Malaysia, Lao, Viet Nam, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Japan, Myanmar, Bangladesh

Honey Bee - Apis mellifera

Order: Hymenoptera   Family: Apidae   Genus: Apis   Species: A. mellifera

The Western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a species of honey bee. This species was introduced to China from early 20th century and has been raised widely around the country.

In the temperate zone, honey bees survive winter as a colony, and the queen begins egg laying in mid to late winter, to prepare for spring. This is most likely triggered by longer day length. She is the only fertile female, and deposits all the eggs from which the other bees are produced. Except a brief mating period when she may make several flights to mate with drones, or if she leaves in later life with a swarm to establish a new colony, the queen rarely leaves the hive after the larvae have become full grown bees. The queen deposits each egg in a cell prepared by the worker bees. The egg hatches into a small larva which is fed by nurse bees (worker bees who maintain the interior of the colony). After about a week, the larva is sealed up in its cell by the nurse bees and begins the pupal stage. After another week, it will emerge an adult bee.

For the first ten days of their lives, the female worker bees clean the hive and feed the larvae. After this, they begin building comb cells. On days 16 through 20, a worker receives nectar and pollen from older workers and stores it. After the 20th day, a worker leaves the hive and spends the remainder of its life as a forager. The population of a healthy hive in mid-summer can average between 40,000 and 80,000 bees.

Chinese Golden Scorpion - Mesobuthus martensii

Order: Scorpiones    Family: Buthidae   Genus: Mesobuthus    Species: M. martensii

Mesobuthus martensii is a species of scorpion in the family Buthidae. Its common names include Chinese scorpion, Manchurian scorpion, Chinese armor-tail scorpion and Chinese golden scorpion. Despite its common name, this scorpion is not only found in Manchuria or China, but also in Mongolia, Korea and Japan. Its preferred habitat is warm, dry areas with little vegetation. M. martensii can grow to about 6 centimetres (2.4 in) long, with females usually slightly larger, and has a life-span of about 4 to 6 years.

M. martensii, especially its tail, has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for many centuries to treat various neuronal problems, such as chronic pain, paralysis, apoplexy and epilepsy. Over the past few decades, dozens of novel proteins in this scorpion's venom have been identified, cloned and investigated for clinical applications. For instance, at least 51 long-chain peptides related to the sodium channel toxins and 18 peptides related to the potassium channel toxins have been described, along with two peptides, BmK AS and AS1, that act on ryanodine receptors. Apart from having analgesic properties, BmK AS is also the first long-chain scorpion peptide reported to have antimicrobial activity. Amongst the sodium channel-specific neurotoxins, there are a number of muscle relaxants, such as makatoxin I and bukatoxin, while BmKAEP and BmK IT2 have shown anticonvulsant activity in experimental conditions, inhibiting epileptic seizures induced in rats. BmK AGAP has both analgesic and antitumor properties and recombinant proteins could potentially be used in anticancer treatments.

Ghost Spider - Neoscona punctigera

Order: Araneae   Suborder: Araneomorphae   Family: Araneidae   Genus: Neoscona

Female body length 8 - 12 mm, chest plate in the first dust-color, with white hair on the head, abdomen or back of the dust-color brown, gray and white short-haired closed, the central authorities have 2 black spots were arranged vertically, on the spot the next big small The spots are not obvious at the bottom of the cross with oblique, there is a chest on the back of the base on the tip under the wide spots. Living in low-lying plains to the mountains in the evening at the edge of the woods, under the eaves networks, the network will damage during the day hiding in the net next to the dead leaves or branches inside the habitat, and some individuals in the leaf surface to imitate animals, into 4 feet look like Shuizi like.

Habitat: Often found among the shrubs of the island.  In other areas, this species usually rests in the day and builds webs at night to catch and feed.  It moves both during the day and night.

Distribution: China, Japan, Korea