Sierra Leone is Commonwealth of Nations member nation in a republican form of government nation located in western part of West Africa, Atlantic coast. It was with a British colony as an emigration place of blacks freed from Egyptian bondage in 1808 and became independent in 1961. It was with one of the countries which an average life span had a shortest by the civil war that lasted approximately nearly ten years once in the world.
The bee stamps which drew fiven kinds of bee from these Sierra Leone was issued in 2012.
Four kinds of stamps and one kind of small sheets which drew the beetles were issued in 2013.
Sierra Leone
2012.8.7 Bee Stamps
Africanized Honeybee Apis mellifera scutellata (Apidae) |
Western Honeybee Apis mellifera (Apidae) |
Leafcutter Bee Megachile latreille (Megachilidae) |
Maranga Bee Meliponula cockerell (Apidae) |
Stingless Bee Hypotrigona cockerell (Apidae) |
Longhorn Beetle Analeptes trifasciata (Cerambycidae) |
Longhorn Beetle Eotithoes palinii (Cerambycidae) |
Longhorn Beetle Hecphora latefasciata (Cerambycidae) |
Longhorn Beetle Gnathoenia flavovariegata (Cerambycidae) |
Goliath Beetle Goliathus regius (Scarabaeidae) |