Written by The insect fair in Kloten is held every year once. Last year I missed it, but this year I was free. It is a rather small insect fair, but looked like a good place especially for Lepidopterologists. There were quite a few sellers of alive insects, but to my slight disappointment, not a single one was selling alive beetles or their larvae. What was offered were a lot of caterpillars and pupae of different butterfly species, praying mantises, roaches, e.g. Therea olegrandejani and Lucihormetica subcincta. And a lot of bird spiders.
Deadstockwise things looked a bit better for the beetle collector. However, there were only very little Lucanidae species offered, but quite a good range of the large and showy beetle species was present. I found a box with different colour morphs of Mecynorrhina ugandensis quite interesting and of course enjoyed looking at the different Goliathus on offer.
See for yourself, here are a few pictures:
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- Megasoma elephas, Dynastes hercules and others
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- Goliathus albosignatus, Mecynorrhina kraatzi, M. savagei and others
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- Phasmidae, Mantidae, Orthoptera and more
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- Different black Mecynorrhina ugandensis
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- Spiders for sale
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- Insects on offer – show specimen
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- Chinese Lucanidae, esp. Lucanus cantori and Cheirtonus jansoni
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- Impressions of Kloten Insect Fair
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- Chrysina, Sphaenognathus feisthameli and others
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- Impressions of Kloten Insect Fair
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- Titanus giganteus, Goliathus ssp, Megasoma ssp
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- Box with Chinese Cetonidae, e.g. Trigonophorus rothschildi and Dicronocephalus dabyri
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- Phalacrognathus muelleri, Cheirotonus jansoni and others
hi do you ship to canada calgary ab. i would like to bye some big beeetles die and alive please
hi do you have big beetles for sell live abd die please