Identify and name it?
Rani
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News, Views and More from Batch'64, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, SriLanka 
“Karapoththa” Used to living with them!
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A Scorpion . You know them very well.
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I too think it is a close up view of a giant Karapoththa. Praxy
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Sorry ,so far incorrect
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How about a cicada or grasshopper
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Modified Airbus A380 landing on the Moon !
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Looks like a creature from a Horror Movie – Remember that old James Bond movie, with Shawn Connery , when he was woken up by a Black Widow Spider on his bed, planted by the enemy folks- : KGB or something like that ?
I forget the name- came out in the early 60’s when we were in Med School .
well- this one — looks like a real poisonous one .
I will stay away from it – even though I like Nature- somethings in Nature- I dont want to know , and this is one of them !
Snake Charmer eagleD
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grasshopper
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Glad to know that there are a few “BUDDING ENTOMOLOGIST S” among the 64 batch
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Kandyan Dancer with a scary mask.
Just kidding. I think it a Madagascar Cockroach insect Beetle. I think it is also called the Hissing Beetle
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Soon Will be posting a detail description of the image ,and the hidden ,Unknown ,amazing ,information, to the interested Entomologist s,
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I think it is a Giant WETA . Predominantly found in New Zealand.
Nisantha
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Congratulations Nissantha,yes it is a “giant Weta,”.
the largest and the heaviest insect in world.
Found in the Little Barrier island in Newzealand..
What makes the “Weta” such a formidable I animal is that it’s like something out of a SC-FI- novel ((Deepthie u guessed it) one variety has evolved an ability to go into suspended animation . The so called Mountain Weta cab be frozen in ice for several months and then just resume regular life when it THAWS.as if nothing has happened .
HOW? Because of a protein that prevents the make of ICE crystals in the blood like fluid.
Would you believe this? It’s older than some Dinosaur s, Fossils found from the Triassic period 190 million years ago show striking similarities to the WETA that inhibit Newzealand today.
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Thanks Rani. I knew a little bit about the Giant Weta. However I waited for our expert Entomologist Rani ,to give more details.
Now I know a little bit more.
Nisantha
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Glad to know that the info added a new page to u r encyclopaedia
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