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This site is about the fun of watching insects in the wild. I am neither an entomologist nor a photographer, I just love taking pictures of insects. I live in Chiang Mai and started looking for insects in January 2000.The site contains over 2000 photographs of insects including butterflies, moths, dragonflies and damselflies, flies, wasps, ants, caterpillars, cicadas, grasshoppers, mantids, bugs and beetles plus spiders and some others (including frogs and snakes). Wherever possible I identify the species. Recent additions are places on a separate page updated every month and there is also a 'Bug of the Week' page updated when I remember. There are also audio files of cicadas, crickets and a few birds. Other sections have articles on insects in Thailand (especially relating to conservation issues), edible insects in the Thai diet, the results of a survey on Thai people's attitudes to insects, insects in Thai proverbs, insects on Thai postage stamps. There are also  checklists of butterflies, moths, dragonflies and beetles I have photographed in the Chiang Mai area and details of books and software relating to insects in Thailand. You can test your knowledge of bugs in a quiz and download pictures from the site as wallpaper. You can read fact sheets on some of the most extraordinary insects and search the site. If you really want to, you can open a page which will allow you to contact me. Finally, I have compiled a page of links to insect websites. I hope the site will be of interest to amateur entomologists, perhaps the odd professional, people with an interest in wildlife in South East Asia and Thailand particularly Northern Thailand and the Chiang Mai area and others who may not be interested in entomology but who nonetheless enjoy looking at photographs of insects in the wild. I neither collect nor sell insects.

John Moore Chiang Mai