Insect Stamp of British AlderneyInsect Stamp of British AlderneyBritish Alderney is a small island of which area is egnht square km, floats in English Channel across U.K. and France. A person of 2000 several hundred lives, and it was known for a milk cow of Alderney class, but sightseeing is the center now. When R.M.S. was made a public corporation in 1969, it issued an original stamp afterward. The stamp of British Alderney introduced geography and the history including scenery and the animals and plants of the island is central.
Ten kinds of stamps describing the insect and the plant were issued in 1994 and 1997 by this British Alderney (Bailiwick of Guernsey).
A small seat constituted from six kinds of bee stamps for the habits was issued in 2009.
A small seat constituted from six kinds of dragonfly stamps was issued in 2010.
British Alderney (Bailiwick of Guernsey)
1994.5.5 (1p,4p,5p,7p,9p,10p,16p,40p)/1997.1.2(18p,26p) Flora & Fauna Stamp
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| Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans (Agrionidae) |
Clouded Yellow Butterfly Colias crocea (Pieridae) |
White-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus lucorum (Anthophoridae) |
Peacock Butterfly Inachis io (Nymphalidae) |
Great Green Bush Cricket Tettigonia viridissima (Tettigoniidae) |
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| Six-spot Burnet Zygaena filipendulae (Zygaenidae) |
Common Blue Butterfly Polyommatus icarus (Lycaenidae) |
Thread-Waisted Wasp Ammophila sabulosa (Sphecidae) |
Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae (Nymphalidae) |
Emperor Moth Saturnia pavonia (Saturniidae) |
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| Tawny Mining Bee Andrena fulva (Andrenidae) |
Early Bumble Bee Bombus pratorum (Anthophoridae) |
Bug Mining Bee Colletes daviesanus (Colletidae) |
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| Gooden's Nomad Bee Nomada goodeniana (Apidae) |
Solotaly Bee Halictus scabiosae (Halictidae) |
Western Honeybee Apis mellifera (Apidae) |
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| Common Darter Dragonfly Sympetrum striolatum (Libellulidae) |
Emperor Dragonfly Anax imperator (Aeschnidae) |
Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans (Agrionidae) |
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| Brown Hawker Aeshna grandis (Aeschnidae) |
Black-tailed Skimmer Orthetrum cancellatum (Libellulidae) |
Red Veined Darter Sympetrum fonscolombii (Libellulidae) |
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