Insect Stamp of Grenada

As for Grenada, there are Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados in the outskirts on an island floating in the Caribbean Sea which is near to Venezuela of the South America. It was discovered in 1498 by Columbus, and the system continued even if it became the U.K. territory in 1783 and entered in the 20th century. It was 1967 that it got autonomy and became independent as a constitutional monarchy in the Commonwealth of Nations in 1974.
Eight kinds of insect stamps which contain the Hercules Beetle from Granada domain Grenadines were issued in 1990.
One piece of small seat including six kinds of insect stamps and one piece of small seat including one kind of insect stamp were issued in 2002 by Grenada.

Grenada Grenadines
1990.3.16 Insect Stamp
Hercules Beetle
Dynastes hercules
(Scaradaeidae)
Click Beetle
Chalcolepidius porcatus
(Elateridae)
Harlequin Beetle
Acrocinus longimanus
(Cerambycidae)
Gold Rim
Battus polydamas
(Papilionidae)
Skimmer
Orthemis ferruginea
(Libellulidae)
Jewel Beetle
Psiloptera variolosa
(Buprestidae)
Great Eggfly
Hypolimnas misippus
(Nymphalidae)
Scarab Beetle
Rutelinae rutelinae
(Scaradaeidae)


Grenada
2002.10.21 Insect Stamp
Western Honeybee
Apis mellifera
(Apidae)
Green Darner Dragonfly
Anax junius
(Aeschnidae)
Large Milkweed Bug
Oncopeltus fasciatus
(Lygaeidae)
Bumble Bee
Bombus bimacultatus
(Anthophoridae)
Migratory Grasshopper
Locusta migratoria
(Acrididae)
Monarch (Caterpillar)
Danaus plexippus
(Danaidae)
Eastern Hercules Beetle
Dynastes tityus
(Scarabaeidae)


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