Kryp

I am a zoologist from Göttingen, Germany, specialized in terrestrial molluscs from Europe.

Language skills: German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, fairly Greek and Italian, and I would probably be able to refresh relatively quickly my Quechua and Miskito which I learned in the late 1980s.

I started taking pictures of insects around 2013. There is a summary page on my German Wikipedia user page.

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  Pictures of animals, mostly Coleoptera from Germany
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  Some were showing their wings extended
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  Most beetles were captured in a white cup and then released after taking the pictures
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  Distribution maps of Gastropoda from European Non-marine Molluscs (2012)
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  Pictures of railway engines
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  Pictures of passenger ships

It is my intention that all my pictures uploaded here in Wikimedia Commons remain there in perpetuity (i.e. after my death).

The idea of this sentence was taken from Stephen Thorpe's iNaturalist profile page. Stephen contributed to iNaturalist New Zealand with thousands of insect observations in a probably unprecedented intensity. He was killed when taking insect pictures in the field in August 2024.

Direct link for uploading pictures.