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Palm-tree Nightfighter (Zophopetes dysmephila)Observer
christopher1201Description
Special visitor this evening. Looks like a match to 1D (female) from Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa 2nd Edition pg 424 and 425. Photos spoilt a bit by flash, but does highlight those big beautiful eyes.
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Cape Rootthugs (Subgenus Frisea)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
About 30 cm tall.
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Large Crane Flies (Family Tipulidae)Observer
sallyslakDescription
Under a rock.
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Heathlike Heath (Erica ericoides)Observer
tonyrebeloPlace
Constantia Neck Jeep Track nr Old Iron Bridge, Cecilia, Table Mountain National Park (Google, OSM)
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Tribe FideliiniObserver
mogamatDescription
There are two bees on the flower. A presume a male and female. They looked to be doing a courting dance before the male mounted the female for a few seconds while I took the pics.
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Genus BembixObserver
peterswartDescription
Wasp leg was caught in the sap of the Euphorbia. Left back and middle legs glued together. Left wing was damaged, so when it was freed, it could not fly.
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Genus TachysphexObserver
christopher1201Description
Mostly on the ground. This photo caught it on a leaf.
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Genus TachysphexObserver
christopher1201Description
Sitting on Queen Anne's lace.
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Small-leaf Currentrhus (Searsia stenophylla)Observer
venturefothDescription
Shrub, c 1 m high
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Short-horned Grasshoppers and Locusts (Superfamily Acridoidea)Observer
vynbosDescription
Wood grain Eyes
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Stenodacma wahlbergiObserver
philippa5000Description
This seems the same visually ..?
Was on the helichrysum before it flew to the aloe cooperi.
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Ground Lobelia (Unigenes humifusa)Observer
pdwhugoPlace
Western Province Mountain Club Hut, Ash Valley, Table Mountain (Nature Reserve), Cape Town, South Africa (Google, OSM)Description
In the path stones
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Southern Malachite Kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus ssp. cristatus)Observer
jandutoit
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Family LithobiidaeObserver
peterswartDescription
Found in a rotting pine log. Body 17mm long. 26 Segments in antenna.
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Family PteromalidaeObserver
greene26Description
2023 Secrest: 1W
Any ID help welcome!
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Twotone Honeyreed (Restio acockii)Observer
stuhallDescription
Few scattered individuals within seasonally damp flats, highly degraded habitat. Poor quality photos
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Meadow Pegreed (Restio pratensis)Observer
douglaseustonbrownDescription
Restio pratensis, female
whole plant 20 cm tall, with underground rhizomes, spikelets 1 cm long at most
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Wire Capereed (Restio harveyi)Observer
botaneekDescription
common in seasonally wet loamy clays with sparse cover
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Restio communisObserver
botaneekDescription
Silvermine endemic; this is one of 4 known localities; very locally common in peaty, wet soils, to 60cm
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Masked Bees (Genus Hylaeus)Observer
alfredoreilobodasnevesDescription
Passion by the passionfruit!
Saw lots of these bees flying around the common passionfruit, noted individuals landing on leaves and others then joining them and then flying off. Then I got the shot of these two mating, it was very brief, only taking a second or two. There was a good number of them just around the passionfruit in the front, none noted at the back one. Did spot others around the garden, mostly by flowers, but nowhere near as much as around the passionfruit.
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Steirodiscus tagetesObserver
james_deaconDescription
Cape Flats Strandveld remnants in Retreat, Steenberg.
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Common Bristle Capegorse (Aspalathus hispida ssp. hispida)Observer
tonyrebeloDescription
Wool Capegorse
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Moss Daisy (Muscosomorphe aretioides)Observer
tonyrebeloPlace
East ridge ascent up Misty Point, west of Het Goedgeloofnek, n of Langkuils R, Marloth Nature Reserve, Langeberg (Google, OSM)
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Zebra Wood Chafer (Stripsipher zebra)Observer
peterswartDescription
One of a group of three beetles inside a rotting pine log.
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Genus AnastoechusObserver
philippa5000Description
A small bee-fly resting on grasses.
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Cloak-and-Dagger Bees (Genus Thyreus)Observer
don_kDescription
Oddly sitting on plant stalk, seemed to be scratching belly...
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Golden Tusk Case Maker (Hydrosalpinx sericea)Observer
gjvanzylDescription
At Sossyskloof in Jonkershoek
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Genus AmmianusObserver
christopher1201Description
Cheeky beetle sitting on an Ammianus
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Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)Observer
cecilerouxDescription
Leafhopper has seperate observation
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Bacteria (Kingdom Bacteria)Observer
tonyrebeloPlace
Klipspringer Trail, north side of Kogel River, Kogelbaai section of Steenbras Nature Reserve (Google, OSM)
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Sulphur Sugarbush (Protea sulphurea)Observer
greenintabaDescription
Protea sulphurea
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Oedisterna cupreaObserver
absolutumitDescription
Larva found amongst a large group of adults
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Cape Klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus ssp. oreotragus)Observer
justinhawthorneDescription
1 M, 1 F
