Six Kinds of Beneficial Insect Specimen Set

Real Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), 13 Star Golden Ladybird Beetle - Synonycha grandis, Spotted Brownish Ground Beetle – Pheropsophus jessoensis, Turtle Cockroach -  Eupolyphaga sinensis, Dragonfly Scarlet Skimmer - Crocothemis servilia  and Praying Mantis - paratenodera sinensis  specimens encased in clear lucite material. The specimen is crystal clear, indestructible and transparent. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real specimens right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the specimens from every angle.

It is clear enough for microscope observation.

Size of the lucite block is 16.5x7.8x2.5 cm(6.5x3.1x1.0 inch).

Each one comes with a cardboard box for easy storage.

Weight of the lucite block is 300 g and 500 g with packing box.

1：Honey Bee    2：13 Star Golden Ladybird Beetle    3：Spotted Brownish Ground Beetle    4: Turtle Cockroach  5: Dragonfly Scarlet Skimmer   6: Praying Mantis

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.
 

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item for every body. 

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Honey Bee - Apis 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.

13 Star Golden Ladybird Beetle - Synonycha grandis

Coccinellidae is a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds (British English, Australian English, South African English), ladybugs (North American English) or lady beetles (preferred by some scientists). The family name comes from its type genus, Coccinella. Coccinellids are found worldwide, with over 5,000 species described, more than 450 native to North America alone. Coccinellids are small insects, ranging from 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches), and are commonly yellow, orange, or scarlet with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, head and antennae. A very large number of species are mostly or entirely black, gray, or brown, however, and may be difficult for non-entomologists to recognize as coccinellids (and, conversely, there are many small beetles that are easily mistaken as such, like tortoise beetles).

They are generally considered useful insects as many species feed on aphids or scale insects, which are pests in gardens, agricultural fields, orchards, and similar places. Some people consider seeing them or having them land on one's body to be a sign of good luck to come, and that killing them presages bad luck. A few species are pests in North America and Europe.

Biology

Spotted Brownish Ground Beetle – Pheropsophus jessoensis

Distribution: China, Japan, Korea

Body size: 15 - 22 mm

Description: When the insect is attacked by enemy, it blast off
poisen gas and explosion from the end of abdomen.

Feature
The adult body is yellow-brown mottling, and the longitudinal muscle sheath to Article 9. Most of the class is black ground beetle and a series of monochromatic colors of the body in a few gaudy colors, and the relatively large stature (about 1.6 cm), very noticeable presence. Catch the abdomen and back-end noise from the glitz of the gas blowout. Hokkaido distribution in the Japanese archipelago from Amami Oshima. China and the Korean Peninsula in the continental distribution.

Turtle Cockroach -  Eupolyphaga sinensis

Distribution: China, Mongolia

Flat oval, length 1.3 ~ 3cm, width 1.2 ~ 2.4cm. The narrow front end, back-end wide, back, purple, brown, glossy, wingless. Pronotum more developed to cover the head; front and plate 9, showing imbricate. Ventral surface reddish brown, the head small, filamentous tentacles 1 pairs, often fall off, the chest full three pairs, with fine hairs and thorns. Abdominal cross-links. Quality crisp, fragile. Gas stench, the taste slightly salty.

Scarlet Skimmer - Crocothemis servilia

Order: ODONATA  Family: LIBELLULIDAE  Genus: Crocothemis

Crocothemis servilia is one of the most common and widespread odonate species in the world, occurring in artificial and highly disturbed habitats and under no threats at present.

Crocothemis servilia is an extremely widespread species, occurring throughout mainland tropical and subtropical Asia, Japan, the Ryukyu Archipelago, the greater and lesser Sunda isles, the Philippines and Sulawesi. In the west it extends into Iraq, Iran, Armenia and Turkey. It has been accidentally introduced into Florida in the USA.

The Scarlet Skimmer (Crocothemis servilia) is a species native to Asia which was introduced to southern Florida. It was first discovered in the U.S. near Miami, Florida, in 1975 and since has become common across most of the southern half of the Florida peninsula.

This species breeds in ponds, ditches, marshes and open swamps.

This species does not appear to be under any major threats across most of its range.

Male body is red color and female body is yellow in color.

Praying Mantis - paratenodera sinensis

Mantis refers to any of various predatory long-bodied large-eyed insects of the family Mantidae, primarily tropical but including a few temperate zone species, usually pale green and having two pairs of walking legs and powerful grasping forelimbs. The mantis feeds on live insects, including others of its own kind.

 Mantis refers to any of various predatory long-bodied large-eyed insects of the family Mantidae, primarily tropical but including a few temperate zone species, usually pale green and having two pairs of walking legs and powerful grasping forelimbs. The mantis feeds on live insects, including others of its own kind.
Although the female mantis has the habit of eating the male after mating, its name suggests a more benign activity. Mantis is from the Greek word mantis, meaning ¡§prophet, seer.¡¨ The Greeks, who made the connection between the upraised front legs of a mantis waiting for its prey and the hands of a prophet in prayer, used the name mantis to mean ¡§the praying mantis.¡¨ This word and sense were picked up in modern Latin and from there came into English, being first recorded in 1658. Once we know the origin of the term mantis, we realize that the species names praying mantis and Mantis religiosa are a bit redundant.