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POPSAustralian Ant Safari Entomologists say Australia has the highest ant biodiversity in the world. In other countries, there may be 30 different species per hectare, in Australia there are more like 100. The text in the clip continues below the pictures. At the site there are details of how ants play an important part in the environment.
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POPSGiant African Millipedes In South Africa these are called, "Songololo" (pronounced: songa-law-law). Although we don't have the giant ones, some of ours in the sub-tropics are also big. Measured one just now and it was six inches. These are one of the most common of insects in my area.
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POPSExquisite Butterflies I have always wanted to collect specimens of butterflies but simply don't have the heart to kill these perfect little jewels. (A couple of pictures are of moths and not butterflies)
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POPSPictures - Picasso Bug These are the only pictures I can find on the net for the lovely Picasso Bug (Sphaerocoris) - a stink bug - from South Africa.
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POPSBaboon Spiders of Africa Bombing down the freeway a few years ago, a movement caught my eye, it was a baboon spider emerging from underneath my dashboard. Imagine my surprise! I couldn't stop and had to keep driving, praying all the while that it did not venture up the steering column. Fortunately it sat on the speedometer and started at me with malevolent eyes. I screamed into the nearest turnoff which happened to be a service station, leaped out and danced around as if I were on fire. Fortunately for me a man of some guts and substance took control of the situation and gently coaxed it out. Generally I'm not averse to spiders, but that 'up close and personal' was more than I could bear. It looked like the spider in the last picture. Very beautiful - at a civilized distance.
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POPSLions and Tigers and Bears? Oh, no! It's Aphids and Larvae and Ants!: Hilton Pond Formica ants, aphids, fly larvae, and parasitic wasps--isn't nature fascinating! It turns out that the body of the dead aphid on the fly maggot likely contained the pupa of a braconid wasp, a small parasite that lays its eggs on living aphids. The fly maggot was consuming the luckless aphid. And the ants were fooled by the maggot's camouflaging chemicals into letting it remain in the aphid herd--a wolf in sheep's clothing, so to speak. Go to the source for the whole story. It's a great website.
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POPS Insects from the forests of Chiang Mai John Moore's AMAZING SITE " ...over 3000 photographs of Thai insects, mostly in their natural habitat. To look for a particular insect, choose a page from the drop-down menu or follow one of these links:"
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