Sunday stamps: Insects

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cool but sunny Fall day in the American Midwest.  There is not a cloud in the sky,  It's time for Sunday Stamps.

The theme this week is insects.  Not many, other than butterflies, are offered on USA stamps.  And I have shared the butterfly stamps before.  But I do have a stamp I last shared in 2013 on this blog:

A stamp from Lithuania, showing the ladybird spider.  We do not have this spider in the Americas.  I do not think it is poisonous.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps II 98

A very warm end of October here in the American Midwest.

It's time for Sunday Stamps.  The theme this week is bizarre or unexplainable stamps.

The first one below, from the Netherlands, might have something to do with posting letters.

Or maybe not.  The second one below I have posted before on my blog.  It's from Lithuania.

A marble? A bead? No one knew then what it was trying to depict, and I am not sure either.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps # 173

Sunday stamps is going up a bit late tonight because I am just back from a house-warming party. It was a beautiful evening and a fun time.
Theme this week; Music and musical instruments.

My first contribution is this stamp from Austria.  My next selection is a stamp from Lietuva (Lithuania):

This one features the birbyne, a reeded intrument from Lithuania, and the kankles, a plucked string instrument, somewhat like a zither.  Both are new to me.  As this is a Europa stamp, I think there are other musical instrument stamps out there, from other countries.

Please  interpret this theme widely, and join me this week.  I have been very busy and unable to visit most entries last week, so I am going to do double the work this week!
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Theme next week: airplanes and air transport.

Theme week after that: Circus, clowns, or fun fairs, interpreted broadly.

Viridian

Sunday stamps #108

Welcome to another weekend, and Sunday Stamps #108.   It is a quiet and snowy weekend here in the midwest of the USA, and Summer seems far away.  But this week we will pause and consider one aspect of warmer weather - insects.

Insects are not all bad.  This taxonomic group includes bees and butterflies after all.  And nameless green beetles on what looks like a dandelion flower.

It is JBS Haldane (British geneticist and evolutionary biologist) who is credited with this quote about beetles and God:

"The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple reason that there are nearly 300,000 species of beetle known, and perhaps more, as compared with somewhat less than 9,000 species of birds and a little over 10,000 species of mammals. Beetles are actually more numerous than the species of any other insect order. That kind of thing is characteristic of nature."

This is sometimes misquoted as "an inordinate fondess for beetles."

Now here is a spider on a stamp from Lithuania.  There are a number of webpages in Lithuanian on this spider, and trusty Wikipedia comes through,  telling me this is the Ladybird Spider.  The females are larger than the males, and it does not appear to be poisonous.

Please join me this week with a contribution!

Theme next week:  Love, hearts, and flowers, in anticipation of Valentine's Day.

Viridian

Sunday Stamps # 82

Sunday Stamps # 82: In which our theme is: stamps that leave you wondering: what is this stamp trying to show? What does it commemorate? Or, who is this person on this stamp anyway?  This theme was actually suggested by one of you when I asked, sometime back, for some help with themes.

In my first stamp I am hampered by a lack of understanding of Cyrillic letters.

This Ukraine stamp is honoring a rocket scientist.  One of my readers from Eastern Europe will laugh and say, "of course, that is _________!"  If you can, please help me out by leaving a comment.

This next stamp is from Lithuania.  Is it a marble, a bead?  A landscape reflection seen in a spherical mirror?  I am not sure, but it is interesting.

 Feel free to join in with stamps that make you go  "Hmmm...." or with any stamp you choose.  Add your link below.

Theme next week: stamps that feature animals, any animals (again by suggestion.)

My contest post is up!  You could win a chance at some free MOO postcards!  See this post and leave a comment for a chance.  This is available to anyone worldwide.  The contest closes August 14.

Viridian

Sunday Stamps #6

Today we will celbrate the science, service, and dedication of firefighters and their red and white trucks, with Lithuania.

Thank you to this Postcrosser who, like a Chinese postcrosser, included the extra images from the stamp sheet.

viridian