Insect Stamp of Slovenia

Slovenia is a country independent of former Yugoslavia. A Slovenian of south Slavish came to live in the sixth century, and a follower of Frank Empire received it in the ninth century and, after the thirteenth century, was governed by Austria to World War I. It form Yugoslavia kingdom with Croatia in 1918 and participate in the Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945. The democratization Administration was born by free election in 1990 and declared separation independence from a federation in 91, the following day and entered Federales and a civil war state, but It agreed in a cease-fire immediately and achieved independence. Main industry is the machine industry and agriculture such as wheat.
An insect was drawn on one of four kinds of creature stamp of a cave issued in 1993 by this Slovenia.
A harmful insect stamp comprising three pieces of one kind of insect and two kinds of plants were the series, and it was published from 2000 to 2005.
A small seat comprising four kinds in total of one kind of stamp on which three kinds of bee stamps and one kind of honey hive was issued in 2001.
Three kinds of beetle stamps and one kind of a small seat comprising one kind of beetle stamp were issued in 2009.
Three kinds of bee stamps and one kind of a small seat comprising one kind of bee stamp were issued in 2012.


Republic of Slovenia
1993.7.12 Living thing of a cave stamp
Blind Cave Beetle
Aphaenopidius kamnikensis
(Carabidae)


2000.4.20 1st Warm Stamp2000.6.23 2nd Warm Stamp2001.7.21 3rd Warm Stamp
Apple Blossom Weevil
Anthonomus pomorum
(Curculionidae)
Cherry Fruit Fly
Rhagoletis cerasi
(Tephritidae)
Green Peach Aphid
Myzus persicae
(Aphididae)

2002.7.19 4th Warm Stamp2003.9.18 5th Warm Stamp2004.9.22 6th Warm Stamp2006.11.17 7th Warm Stamp
Winter Moth
Operophthera brumata
(Geometridae)
Olive Fruit Fly
Bactrocera oleas
(Tephritidae)
Pear Psylla
Cacopsylla pyricola
(Psyllidae)
Flatid Planthopper
Metcalfa pruinosa
(Aphrophoridae)


2001.5.23 Honeybee Stamp
Worker beeQueen bee & Male beeNest protection bee
Western Honeybee
Apis mellifera
(Apidae)


2009.9.25 Beetle Stamp
European Stag Beetle
Lucanus cervus
(Lucanidae)
Blue Longhorn Beetle with Black Spots
Rosalia alpina
(Cerambycidae)
Threatened Beetle
Osmoderma eremita
(Scarabaeidae)
Ground Beetle
Carabus variolosus
(Carabidae)


2012.9.28 Bee Stamp
Red-tailed Bumble Bee
Bombus lapidarius
(Anthophoridae)
Common Carder Bumble Bee
Bombus pascuorum
(Anthophoridae)
Brown-banded Carder Bee
Bombus humtilis
(Anthophoridae)
White-tailed Bumble Bee
Bombus lucorum
(Anthophoridae)


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