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aedes_gr.jpgThe orchid mantis

The orchid mantis from Indonesia and Malaysia, Hymenopus coronatus,  is one of the most beautiful insect in the world and a symbol of complex and perfect camouflage in animal kingdom.
Every part of mantis life involves deception. When born it is a little orange-black insect, mimicking poisonous bugs of the forest. Later it turns into a wonderful whitish-pink insect that lives on orchids, copying various parts of the flower and ambushing visiting insect.

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Saving frogs in the Amazon
thumb_saving_frogs_pic.jpgAmphibians are disappearing around the globe. They are under pressure because of habitat loss, climate change and the deadly Chitrid fungus...
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Luoghi condivisi
porto_center_pic.jpgLa convivenza tra la città di Genova e il suo porto commerciale. Una raccolta di immagini che mette in discussione lo convinzione di uno scontro tra queste due realtà
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Yemen, la via dell'incenso
yemen_med.jpgQueste immagini sono realizzate lungo quella che per quasi duemila anni è stata la “Via dell’incenso”, la tratta carovaniera percorsa dai mercanti di spezie...
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Elogio della chiocciola
chiocciola_pic.jpgRaramente le è concessa grande attenzione anche se è una presenza costante nei nostri campi e nei giardini. Infatti, più di molti altri animali, la chiocciola...
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12-09-2009 More invading species pictures added

01-06-2009 More orchid mantis pictures. New gallery "Shared places" about Genoa port, landscape and citizens.

02-04-2009 New photo story on entomophagy: Insect as food

20-03-2009 Updated Caves life gallery, a look at biospeleology.

New exhibit at Genoa, Italy - Predatori del Microcosmo (28/3 - 5/7/2009)

26-02-2009 First series of new Strange but true "short photo stories" now online.

22-02-2009 Isopoda.net, third generation online. Some sections still under construction

18-01-2009 Travel galleries in Yemen and Azores Islands added

03-12-2008 Gallery on invading species and on Louisiana crayfish added. Updated Survival of the fittest with many new pictures from South America and Africa

06-11-2008 Gallery on marble quarries in Carrara added

02-07-2008 Gallery on italian wild orchids and massive frogs breeding added

14-04-2008 Gallery on Ants war in peruvian rainforest added

About this site

Welcome to Isopoda.net, website of Italian biologist and science photographer Francesco Tomasinelli. My favourite subjects are neglected animals, like insects, arachnids and reptiles, but I work on many other nature topics, travel, events and general photography too.

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