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Silently speaking
Crickets are some of the oldest and best studied singers of the animal world. Their ancestors were probably some of the first animals to break the silence of the dry land in the Permian and the...
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Bengalia
The dilapidated remnants of Chironde, an old hunting camp near the town of Inhamitanga in Mozambique, don’t make for a particularly enticing location for visitors and most of the year the camp sits...
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Gladiator spiders
In June 2006 I was in Ghana with a group of conservation biologists to gather data and arguments for the creation of a new national park around the spectacular and highly threatened Atewa Forest...
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Mozambique Diary: Coconut crabs of Vamizi
The coconut crab (Birgus latro), the coolest, most awesome, most beautiful inhabitant of the Vamizi Island. These animals have adapted to live around humans and the conservation group on the island...
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Lungless and happy about it
It is rather amazing that a terrestrial animal as big as this Ringtail salamander (Bolitoglossa robusta) from Costa Rica can spend its entire life without taking a single breath and instead relies...
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Ghost hunting
A silhouette of the first ghost mantis (Phyllocrania paradoxa) recorded from Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. I have been working in Africa for quite a while and during this time I have seen my...
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Mozambique Diary: Red-headed flies
Red-headed flies (Bromophila caffra) are striking and common animals in East and southern Africa, but little is known about their biology. Two months, that’s how long I have been neglecting this blog....
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Dermatobia Redux
Raising two dipteran children was an interesting experience. It was embarrassing on a few occasions, when both of my arms started bleeding profusely in public; painful at times, to the point of waking...
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So long, 2014
It was an interesting, busy year, which explains in part why I have been neglecting this blog recently. I am not going to give a month-by-month account of 2014 but thought that a few highlights might...
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What to do?
This morning, in my bathroom, I was faced with a dilemma. Take Our PollFiled under: Macrophotography
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Mozambique Diary: Webspinners
An adult female of a yet unidentified webspinner from Gorongosa National Park. It has been a busy couple of months for me – first organizing a month-long biodiversity survey in Gorongosa National Park,...
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My life is now complete
A wingless form of zorapteran (Zorotypus hubbardi) from Sapelo Island, GA When I set off for a long weekend on Sapelo Island in Georgia to teach insect photography at the BugShot workshop, it never...
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BugShot 2014: Sapelo Island, GA
Intimate portraits: A queen ant (Polyrhachis armata) My arrival in Johannesburg has brought a welcome respite from the unbearable winter of New England, and tomorrow I fly to Gorongosa National Park to...
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Mozambique Diary: A welcoming conehead
A conehead katydid (Ruspolia consobrina) found in a Maputo hotel. Last night I arrived in Mozambique’s capital Maputo. It was almost midnight when I finally got to my hotel, tired to the point of...
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Music in my head
Male Carolina ground crickets (Eunemobius carolinus) are the hardiest of all my garden’s musicians, and may continue to woo females with their song well into late November. I have always wanted to be a...
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BugShot 2013 in Belize
There are still a few slots available for BugShot 2013, a great opportunity to learn macrophotography in the rainforest of Belize from Alex Wild, Thomas Shahan, John Abbott, and yours truly. It is...
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The Greatest Show on Earth, happening now
The best time to see Atlantic horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) is on the nights of the full and new moon in May and June. I am still in Mozambique, and will be here for a few more weeks, but I...
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Mozambique Diary: Golden bats
A colony of Lander’s horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus landeri) – notice the orange hairs in the armpits of the flying male. Tomorrow marks the first official day of the Gorongosa Biodiversity Survey on the...
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Mozambique Diary: A talking grasshopper
A male Cataloipus cognatus munching on grass. [Canon 6D, Canon 100mm macro, 3 x Canon 580EXII]One of the most endearing characteristics of grasshoppers is their ability to produce sound. Some of the...
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Mozambique Diary: It is loud out here
A male Tobacco cricket (Brachytrupes membranaceus) singing at the entrance to his burrow. The shape of the opening acts as an amplifier to his already very loud song. [Canon 7D, Canon 16-35mm, Canon MT...
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