Insect Stamp of GrenadaInsect Stamp of GrenadaAs 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
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| Hercules Beetle Dynastes hercules (Scaradaeidae) |
Click Beetle Chalcolepidius porcatus (Elateridae) |
Harlequin Beetle Acrocinus longimanus (Cerambycidae) |
Gold Rim Battus polydamas (Papilionidae) |
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| 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
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| Western Honeybee Apis mellifera (Apidae) |
Green Darner Dragonfly Anax junius (Aeschnidae) |
Large Milkweed Bug Oncopeltus fasciatus (Lygaeidae) |
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| 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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