Sunday, August 7, 2022

Benin - Spiderman

Date of issue: 2008
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 5/9

Michel #: Cinderella ?
category: Spiderman

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Bernera* (1982)

Date of issue: 1982
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

Those stamps are local post stamps issued for Great Bernera and Little Bernera Islands, which lie northwest of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Four mailboxes are maintained on the islands and they are serviced at regular intervals. The mail is collected and re-mailed at a nearby British Post Office with regular British postage added.

This series is also available imperforated.


Michel #: none / local issue
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae (guess)


















Other stamps of this series:

Bernera* - Spiders

Date of issue: 1982
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6



Michel #: none / local issue
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae (guess)




















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Sunday, June 26, 2022

Bhutan (1989)

Date of issue: 1989
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/23?


This is a series about birds, but on one of the souvenir sheets, there is a spider in the upper right corner.

Michel #: ?
order: Araneae


























Crop from sheet:

Bhutan - Spiders

Date of issue: 1989
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/23?


Michel #: none
order Araneae
*close-up of spider






























Full sheet:




 






























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Sunday, June 19, 2022

Bhutan (1997)

Date of issue: January 15th, 1997
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/26




Michel #: 1662
Scott #: 1134t
Yvert #: 1161
order: Scorpiones
family: Caraboctonidae
Hadrurus hirsutus (Wood, 1863)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 






















 
Michel #: 1666
Scott #: 1134x
Yvert #: 1165
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Araneus diadematus Clerck, 1757





























Full sheet:































Other stamps of this series:




























Bhutan - Spiders

Date of issue: January 15th, 1997
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/26




Michel #: 1666
Scott #: 1134x
Yvert #: 1165
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Araneus diadematus Clerck, 1757






























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Bhutan - Scorpions

Date of issue: January 15th, 1997
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/26




Michel #: 1662
Scott #: 1134t
Yvert #: 1161
order: Scorpiones
family: Caraboctonidae
Hadrurus hirsutus (Wood, 1863)






























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Sunday, May 29, 2022

Botswana (1975)


Date of issue: June 23rd, 1975
Name of issue: Rock paintings Tsodilo Hills
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/4


Michel #: 139
order: Scorpiones























Souvenir sheet:





Other stamps of this issue:





Botswana - Scorpions

Date of issue: June 23rd, 1975
Name of issue: Rock paintings Tsodilo Hills
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/4

Michel #: 139
order: Scorpiones
category: Art























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