Disco inferno ...

Here's one of the most vivid grasshoppers I have come across. He looks amazing with his array of colours. He looks like he is ready to hit the disco floor.

Order: Orthoptera

Family: Unknown

Vernacular name: Unknown

Scientific name: Unknown

Big eyes, bigger belly ...

Here's another jumping spider I saw recently at Nam Nao National Park, Petchabun. He was happily feasting on another spider bigger than himself. 

Order: Arachnida

Family: Unknown

Vernacular name: Jumping spider

Scientific name: Unknown

This photo came out a little blurred. But as it was extremely windy and the spider moved under the leaf with his prey, so I had to hold the leaf with one hand and my heavy camera gear in the other. So I think I am excused. Amazing markings, though.

Fur enough ...

... can anyone tell where the cushion fluff ends and the little spider starts? 

This little jumping spider decided to rest on my cushion. I think he's really cute.

Order: Arachnida 

Family: Unknown

Vernacular name: Common house jumping spider

Scientific name: Unknown

An ugly robber fly that came out beautifully ...

... I would say that this is the best photo I have managed to take of a bug to date. Everything seemed to just go right. It is of a robber fly (female, I think), that landed in front of me while I was searching for dragonflies at Nam Nao National Park, Petchabun recently. It was in a dark, forested area, but the photo just seemed to come out great. I don't know what species it is, but I hope that an expert could tell me.

Order: Diptera

Family: Unknown

Vernacular name: Unknown

Scientific name: Unknown

Two-tone music ... 

These great-looking black and orange two-tone bugs were across the other side of the stream, Nam Nao headquarters. I couldn't see them at first, only hear them. They made a strange sound and eventually saw how beautiful they are. I waded across the stream and managed to get a few photos before they moved off quickly. They are a cross between a cicada and a giant leaf hopper, but I think they are of the cicada family. I will place them into that category until I know better.

Order: Hemiptera

Family: Unknown

Vernacular name: Unknown

Scientific name: Unknown

At the end of the rainbow ...

... maybe this is what you find. Two beautiful moths. I saw this pair very late in the afteroon while searching for dragonflies up Phu Kradeung National Park, Loei. 

Order: Lepidoptera

Family: Zygaenidae 

Vernacular name: Unknown

Scientific name: Cyclosia sp.

Big, strange bugs now available @ 7/11...

Both of these large bugs I saw at a 7/11 very early in the morning. The brownish-coloured specimen was underneath the ceiling at a 7/11 just outside Chumpae, Khon Kaen. The second, greenish-coloured specimen, was spotted at a 7/11 near Phu Rua, Loei province. They are different species of Sathrophyllia, but I don't really know exactly what.  

Order: Orthoptera

Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Pseudophylinae

Vernacular name: Unknown

Scientific name: Sathrophyllia sp.

The Chumpae specimen ...

This one has exceptionally long antennae ...

The Phu Rua specimen. I think this is a beautiful creature ...