Thasus acutangulus, late instar nymphs
Not sure what it is... Found on the ventral side of a bamboo leaf
injured kinkajou being nursed back to health
Chelonia mydas? Quite unsure about this one, as the identifiers I usually use for turtles are not visible in the silhouette photo (beak and number of claws).
Perhaps someone can see something else? Statistically this should be a green turtle, but cannot confirm it from the photo alone.
Fungal galls (I think) looking like alien caterpillars on Senegalia pentagona. See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84152636
Found underneath loose bark on the main trunk, 20m up in a tree. Others noted that they were found underneath trunk bark at ground level as well.
I have always been interested to know what this little creature was. Unfortunatly it jumped away into the darkness.
Beautiful grasshopper along a primitive road in the Rio Bravo Conservation area near La Milpa Field Station
January 2016.
Zombitse, Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park.
Madagascar.
Arachnobas is a genus of weevils peculiar to the Moluccas and New Guinea.
When caught by an animal (e.g. me), immediately this beetle turned to lay on the back and moved its legs like a spider; probably mimicry.
Genus: Arachnobas BOISDUVAL, 1835 (Syn.: Rhynchodes)
Tribus: Arachnopodini LACORDAIRE, 1866
Subfamily: Conoderinae SCHOENHERR, 1833
[det. Alexander Riedel, 2010, based on photos]
Family: Curculionidae LATREILLE, 1802 (weevils, Rüsselkäfer)
Superfamily: Curculionoidea LATREILLE, 1802
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Suborder: Polyphaga
Order: Coleoptera (beetles, Käfer)
Indonesia, W-Papua, SW Manokwari, Arfak Mts.: Syoubrig (Mokhwam), ca. 1600m asl., 14.08.2010; IMG_4079
This nymph of a bush-cricket, ~2-3cm, looks like a giant ant (mimicry);
however, ants (Hymenoptera) neither have such - long - antennae nor such strong hind-legs (femur)!
The colouration supports the mimicry: the dark colour of antennae is interrupted by a broad white part, hence they seem to be short like the ones of ants. The same happens with the colourful neon-stripes that legs seem thin and the body seems constricted... like a real ant!
Subfamily: Phaneropterinae BURMEISTER, 1838 (false katydids)
[det. Brigitte Helfert, 2013, based on this photo]
Family: Tettigoniidae KRAUSS, 1902
(bush-crickets or katydids, Laubheuschrecken)
[det. "shadowshador", 2013, based on this photo]
Superfamily: Tettigonioidea KRAUSS, 1902
Suborder: Ensifera (crickets, katydids and bush-crickets, Langfühlerschrecken)
Order: Orthoptera (Heuschrecken & Grillen)
Infraclass: Neoptera (Neuflügler)
Subclass: Pterygota
Class: Insecta (insects, Insekten)
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Phylum: Arthropoda (Gliederfüßer)
taxonomical info: orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNa...
and: www.biolib.cz/en/taxontree/id87/
Indonesia, W-Papua, vic. Manokwari: Gunung Meja (Table mountain NP), ca. 100m asl., 11.08.2010; IMG_3684
True tree-hoppers with their offspring
Order: Hemiptera (true bugs, Schnabelkerfe)
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Cicadomorpha (Rundkopfzikaden)
Superfamily: Membracoidea
Family: Membracidae (treehoppers, Buckelzirpen oder Buckelzikaden)
Genus: Hyposolyrium SCHMIDT, 1926
possibly: Hypsolyrium uncinatum (Stäl, 1869)
host plant (I think): Solanum betaceum
Indonesia, Central-Sulawesi, Tentena-Bomba: ca. 1800m asl., 14.05.2010; IMG_9985
Female with young in pouch
Nectar feeding bats coming to the hummingbird feeder
Bengal Slow Loris - this Loris fell off a tree on to the roof of one of our buildings, was kept one day for observation and then released into the forest in good health.
Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 15th June 2017
Equipment: Nikon D800 with Nikkor 300mm f2.8
Female adult spider with egg-sac on Paan leaf
Location: Badsaitilla village, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 1st July 2016
Equipment: Nikon D800 with Micro-Nikkor 105mm
on boardwalk in mangroves
We (my Indonesian student Sheherazade and I) have a Pteropus-durian pollinator/seed dispersal study going on out in Sulawesi right now and part of that study requires capture of other co-occurring fruit bats. She got this feisty female yesterday, on a very small island that does not have any fruiting trees, so we suspect that she roosts here.
We are calling this a Nyctimene cephalotes for now, but the yellowish eye rings are an interesting morphological trait. The species is recognized to have a rathe wide distribution, so taxonomic questions are not surprising given the lack of study into this group thus far.
The photos were taken over only 67 seconds - with one lovely and very expressive cuttlefish.
The truly spectacular and incredibly photogenic - wunderpus!
The wonderful mimicry of the mimic octopus. Photos include it in its burrow, mimicking a flounder, and out in the sand.
This octopus was investigating a couple of shells we placed nearby. It seemed to decide they were useful... before trying to run off with them!
And then along comes a spectator...
Danger High Voltage