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Details Subject: Timber Designer: Victor Whitely Printer: Harrisons & Sons Ltd, London Process: Photogravure Paper:  Watermark: 1st – None 4th/7th Printing – Cockerels Perf: 14.5 (comb) Cylinders: 1A (Blue Green) 1A (Brown) 1A (Yellow) Sheet: R10 x 6 (60 stamps) Quantity: Reprints: 4th Printing – 1 April 1966 7th Printing – 16…

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The southern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicoides) is a species of bee-eater found across sub-equatorial Africa. It was formerly considered conspecific with the closely related northern carmine bee-eater, with the combined species then known as carmine bee-eater. This species, like other bee-eaters, is richly coloured and is predominantly carmine in colouration,…

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The nyala (Tragelaphus angasii) is a spiral-horned antelope native to southern Africa. It is a species of the family Bovidae and genus Tragelaphus, previously placed in genus Nyala. It was first described in 1849 by George French Angas. The coat is maroon or rufous brown in females and juveniles, but…

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Sphodromantis is a large genus of praying mantises concentrated in Africa, sometimes considered a synonym of the genus Hierodula: from the same tribe, Paramantini. Outside their range especially, many share the common name African Mantis. Stamps & Postal Products 1970 Insects of Malawi – 3s Praying Mantis (Sphodromantis)

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Details Subject: Nyala Designer: Victor Whitely Printer: Harrisons & Sons Ltd, London Process: Photogravure Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 14.5 (comb) Cylinders: 1A 1A Sheet: R6 x 10 (60 stamps) Quantity: Reprints: 2nd Printing – February 1965

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The Pumpkin ladybird beetle, (Henosepilachna elaterii) is a phytophagous ladybird species found in southern Europe, Africa and western Asia. It feeds mainly on squirting cucumber, but also on other cultivated or spontaneous Cucurbitaceae plants. Stamps & Postal Products 1970 Insects of Malawi – 1/6d Pumpkin Ladybird (Henosepilachna elaterii) References Wikipedia:…

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Mylabris dicincta is a species of beetle in the Meloidae family. The scientific name of the species was first validly published in 1850 by Bertoloni. Blister beetles are 1 to 4 cm large, colourful beetles. They can be seen eating flowers during the summer months. Most are black and yellow,…

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The Elegant Grasshopper (Zonocerus elegans) is a slow-moving, colourful grasshopper found throughout most of Malawi. Only 5% of adults have wings and emits juices that have an offensive smell. It is considered a pest throughout Southern Africa and is destructive to a number of agricultural industries. Stamps & Postal Products…

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The 2d image was taken from a brochure inscribed “North Nyasa Zebu bull at the Department’s Livestock Improvement Centre at Mbawa in the Northern Province”  and depicts the breed Bos indicus. The picture was reversed for the stamp design. The colouring was provided by a Kodachrome image of two bulls and…

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Bidens pinnatipartita grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is found in wooded tall grassland near rocky outcrops. Stamps & Postal Products 1968 Wildflowers of Malawi – 3s Bidens pinnatipartita References Flora of Zambia

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