Poker Cards-Muh Seng Museum of Entomology

As a child, I had a habit of collecting things, and a recently rekindled interest is poker cards. Here’s poker cards about bugs and insects! To my knowledge, this was picked up a few years back (?).

These poker cards are from the Muh Seng Museum of Entomology [see here, and/or here].

Entomology, when I search for the definition in the search bar, results in the following text popping up:

The front side, back side, joker cards and a randomly chosen playing card.

“NOUN ORIGIN mid 18th century: from French entomologie or modern Latin entomologia, from Greek entomon (denoting an insect) + -logia (see -logy).”

The word describes the field of study (in zoology) of insects.

The cards are paper/cardboard materials, and can be easily stacked to form a house of cards, though I wouldn’t bend them.

Each card introduces a different insect. When taking pictures, I randomly picked up the eight of spades, with a picture of a crab, which interestingly, lives in (probably) swampy forests and forages with activity near the roots of trees (including climbing them). Certainly a sight I have yet to see.