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Palmiet Night Walk

A few Palmiet Rangers went on a night walk led by herpetologist snake catcher and all-round naturalist Nick Evans. And they saw good stuff:

  • Amietia angolensis
    Amietia angolensis
  • egg eater
    egg eater
  • Afrixalus
    Afrixalus
  • scorpion catching
    scorpion catching . .
  • gecko
    . . a gecko
  • Hyperolius
    Hyperolius
  • Hyperolius
    Hyperolius
  • water snake
    water snake
– Nicks Pics –

Meantime I took some pics in my garden lately

  • tiny groundcover
    tiny groundcover
  • jasminum?
    maybe Carissa spinarum?
  • moth eggs -> caterpillars
    moth eggs -> caterpillars
– Suncana ID’d the tiny moth eggs (ca.1mm width) and caterpillars as Saturnidae, probly Wahlberg’s Emperors –

And another of our naturalists, Suncana, was busy as ever, spotting new and fascinating things:

– Suncana Bradley’s latest –

While Roger and Rory shot more birds:

– Roger Hogg caught a Crowned Hornbill catching a Common Wolf Snake –
– Roger Hogg and Rory O’Connor here in the Palmiet valley – Athol Marchant in the Drakensberg –

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This “emperor moth” from Cowies Hill wasn’t. Turns out iNaturalist says it’s a Giant Silkworm Moth. Genus Lobobunaea. Beauty!

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