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01.05.2013 20:09, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

Let me tell you a secret - fruit in Madagascar is also seasonal. Only bananas are sold all the time. Apples, pears, plums, oranges, grapes, etc.grow, on the contrary, only on the central plateau, namely, in Antsirab.


To my surprise, the fruit was not very good: bananas, mangoes and avocados. And my favorite papaya was not frown.gif

02.05.2013 17:16, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

The last series of photos is dedicated to animals.

A wonderful little frog. Pay attention to the epiphylls, the photo turned out just like for a textbook.

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a bigger frog

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background gecko, similar to eublefars

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Uroplatys. Funny thing is, I didn't see it until I almost touched it with my hand. Absolutely fantastic animal.

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One evening, guests came to us "on the light". These are rufous lemurs. Afterwards, they regularly came to us, lined up near the balcony and waited for food. Unlike macaques, lemurs turned out to be modest and intelligent animals - not once, even in our absence, there were no attempts to climb onto the balcony and play tricks there.

This and subsequent photos were taken from the hotel's balcony.

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This photo was also taken from our balcony. Indri on the branches of a tree. Indri are specialized leafhoppers, so attempts to lure them with a banana have not been successful.

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These photos were taken in the forest. Here the animals are used to tourists (indri and sifaki are the main attraction!) and let them get almost close.

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Sifaka in the forest.

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But it was almost impossible to photograph night lemurs with my technique.

That's what happened with the flash

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The same photo, but processed in Photoshop

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Another maximally lightened photo

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12.05.2013 1:31, lepidopterolog

I returned from Morocco a month ago - a great reason to write a reportsmile.gif: there will be few words, mostly pictures of biotopes and some wildlife.
So, High, Medium and Anti-Atlas, March 28-April 10.
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High Atlas, Asni neighborhood, 1600 m. View of the Toubkal massif and the highest point in North Africa - Mount Jebel Toubkal, 4167 m. At the end of March, Tomares mauretanicus and Elphinstonia charlonia flew here in large numbers:
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High Atlas, Toubkal massif by lepidopterolog, on Flickr

Tomares mauretanicus, one of the expedition's targets:
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Tomares mauretanicus by lepidopterolog, on Flickr

Iris on the background of the Tubkal massif:
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Morocco, High Atlas, vic. of Asni, Iris sp. by lepidopterolog, on Flickr

Quedenfeldtia moerens, a rare endemic gecko:
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Quedenfeldtia moerens, endemic of the Atlas Mts. by lepidopterolog, on Flickr

The southern macroslope of the High Atlas is very dry-apparently, the Tubkal massif takes on wet air masses from the Atlantic and the southern slopes get nothing. Surroundings of the Tizi n'test Pass, 2500 m. Of the insects , only the ubiquitous blackbirds.
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Dry southern macroslope of High Atlas by lepidopterolog, on Flickr

Berbers live in the mountains, a typical Berber village - mud houses built with a ladder on top of each other:
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Berber village by lepidopterolog, on Flickr

View from Tizi n'test Pass, with Anti-Atlas on the horizon.
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And this is the view from the other side, from the Anti-Atlas, on the horizon, respectively, a High Atlas:
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Anti-Atlas by lepidopterolog, on Flickr

Cool cactus-like milkweeds grow everywhere:
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Anti-Atlas by lepidopterolog, on Flickr

Along the riverbeds grow argan trees, holdwood, oleanders, etc. And in general, everything is very much knocked out by cattle-I have not seen such an over-grazing anywhere, butterflies sometimes have to be picked out in garbage dumps and along roads where you can find more or less untouched vegetation.
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Anti-Atlas by lepidopterolog, on Flickr
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12.05.2013 1:31, lepidopterolog

While the High Atlas and the Anti-Atlas are quite similar in appearance and are now almost deforested, the Middle Atlas is still more or less completely covered with normal forests, and three types: evergreen with tightly closed crowns, shrub communities of the Mediterranean type dominated by Quercus ilex, and cedar forests.
Evergreen forests with tightly closed crowns also seem to consist mainly of some kind of oaks. In the litter runs a lot of black heifers, small ground beetles, etc. Found the remains of Lucanus sp.
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Edge of the cedar forest:
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Atlas cedar, Cedrus atlantica, the trunk diameter of this tree is about a meter:
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Shrub communities of low-growing Quercus ilex are found mainly along small ridges with rocky outcrops. Biotope of Iphiclides feisthamelii, Antocharis belia, Gonepteryx spp., Callophrys avis, C. rubi, and several other species.
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Scarabs fight for the ball:
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And, finally, a list of captured mace sawyers. We caught most of the species that are found at this time. Unfortunately, it was not possible to catch the light due to technical reasons.

Hesperiidae
Spialia doris
Muschampia mohammed
Carcharodus tripolinus


Papilionidae
Zerynthia rumina
Iphiclides feisthamelii


Pieridae
Pieris brassicae
P. rapae
Pontia daplidice
Euchloe ausonia
E. belemia
E. falloui
E. charlonia
Anthocharis belia
Colias croceus
Gonepteryx rhamni
Gonepteryx cleopatra


Satyridae
Melanargia ines
Coenonympha lyllus
Pararge aegeria
Lasiommata megera

Nymphalidae
Vanessa cardui
Nymphalis polychloros
Polygonia c-album
Melitaea punica
M. didyma
M. deserticola
Issoria lathonia


Lycaenidae
Callophrys rubi
C. avis
Tomares ballus
T. mauretanicus
Lycaena phlaeas
Thersamonia phoebus
Lampides boeticus
Tarucus theophrastus
Azanus ubaldus
Zizeeria knysna
Celastrina argiolus
Glaucopsyche melanops
Pseudophilotes abencerragus
Lysandra punctifera
Polyommatus celina
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12.05.2013 11:32, Bad Den

In the litter runs a lot of black heifers, small ground beetles, etc.

Zhuzhelits, I hope, took? wink.gif

12.05.2013 11:57, lepidopterolog

We've already discussed this, they're waiting for you smile.gif
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02.10.2013 0:21, Dracus

I returned just yesterday from Kenya, where I went for 5 days to see birds and megafauna (Nakuru, Naivashi, Maasai Mara). I visited the equator for the first time. The season is dry, there are very few insects, and as a rule, there was no time or opportunity to catch them (in national parks, there are eyes of rangers and guides everywhere). I managed to collect a little under the lawns in the camp. The camera didn't work well for the first couple of days, and by the third it was completely broken, so the photos weren't very good. But I saw a lot of new things for myself, in particular, a very intense and incredibly short (1 hour) flight of termites of 3 species at once (a total of 5 were observed), their termite beds, was severely bitten by nomadic ants Dorylus sp. and, in revenge, caught their huge male smile.gif(on the second mattress), saw several live ones at once groups of erect-winged birds and praying mantises, even if only sporadically (in particular, the praying mantis Hoplocorypha sp., which is almost impossible to see in the grass due to its posture and manner of movement - unfortunately, it was no longer possible to remove it). In general, given the goal, I consider the trip a success.

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16.11.2014 3:07, taler

I want to go to Tanzania!!! Anyone interested?

23.12.2014 16:49, Frantic

Some photos from a recent expedition.

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30.12.2014 22:00, Frantic

Some more photossmile.gif

PS: the monument in the photo is the great Livingston.

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30.12.2014 23:24, Чегар

Oh, what a bug!
And there are still photos of black-heifers? Sorry for not asking for fans of other families.

31.12.2014 12:08, Frantic

As always, it's a pity to spend time on photos of live objectssmile.gif, but there is a photo of such a large beast-Anomalipus elephas.

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31.12.2014 19:48, Чегар

Black bodies are an infinite variety and perfection of forms with a minimum of visual means. Magic beetles, thank you for the photo!
The new season is just around the corner, with 5 hours left. Happy New Year to all! beer.gif
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07.07.2015 20:02, lazardin

Please tell me, can there be any problems with the transportation of dry insects-small fees from Tunisia through Germany, so as not to substitute a relative ??

03.08.2015 21:35, Vlad Proklov

A website on African butterflies has been launched: http://www.afromoths.net/
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17.04.2016 11:30, PeterN

Thank you for your reports and great photos wink.gif

21.12.2016 23:59, STG

"Near the borders of the Congo and Mozambique" - what's that supposed to mean?)

22.12.2016 1:11, Bad Den

"Near the borders of the Congo and Mozambique" - what's that supposed to mean?)

Most likely - in Tanzania.

22.12.2016 6:45, Frantic

It is very inconvenient to insert a photo on the site (due to the size). I will try not to be lazy and add a photo!

26.12.2016 10:01, Mikhail F. Bagaturov

As always, it's a pity to spend time on photos of live objectssmile.gif, but there is a photo of such a large beast-Anomalipus elephas.


Live well and long in captivity. It would be very interesting to bring them back alive.

27.09.2017 16:06, STIGMA

Good afternoon dear forumchane!
I'll bring up the topic)

A small report from the unusual areas for me, from the north-eastern part of Sudan, where I am now.
After my usual cool Yakutia, it was very unusual to plunge into the hot desert climate. I have been here for the 4th month, along with the main work (snatches) I observe local insects and various animals. The terrain is desert, rocky, but areas of real sand dunes are very common. Territorial – the Nubian Desert. The hottest period was in June, during the day the temperature rose to 45-47 degrees in the shade, the maximum on the thermometer saw 49. The sand warms up to 55 by 3 o'clock. Walking a couple of kilometers on the hot sands in 2-3 days can be extremely difficult, you can simply not walk. Of course, I didn't expect this when I came here, but oddly enough, in a week the body adapts and 35-40 becomes the usual working temperature.
The life of local residents is boring and not saturated, I got up, prayed, worked (which they don't like at all), had lunch, prayed, received money in the evening, spent everything - insha'allah. But poverty is only an appearance, prices for food and goods as in Moscow, supply is an indicator of demand, if there is a desire-the worker receives 200-250 pupaars. Technicians 300-500. But the villages and hamlets look very contrasting, ragged awnings, sun beds, well, you don't really need anything more.
There's not much in the way of animals, only domestic camels and semi-wild sheep. Many different lizards, some sedentary, and some are worn under 60 km with a size of 10 cm. A couple of times I met small monitor lizards up to 50-60 cm, but they do not let me in and do not want to be photographed.
Insects and other arthropods are more interesting. Scorpions and phalanges are often found under the stones. Phalanges are different, at least two types. There are two types of scorpions.
There is no diversity in beetles, two or three species of large desert black-throats, and one species, the prickly and large beetle prionotheca coronata.
Butterflies are more interesting, mostly nocturnal, and there are a lot of dustpans on the walls of mine workings. Diurnal conditions are worse, but pigeons of several species fly, feed on the scanty flowers of local shrubs, a couple of species of whiteflies and at least three species of colotis. One of the most interesting is the Colias marnoana jaundice, which is said to be a rare butterfly that flies early in the morning, up to 8 o'clock in the desert in search of flowering shrubs. At night in mid-September, hawk moth flew en masse, but only of one type, such as the barred hawk moth. Scarabs and a couple of other small lamelliferous species were also plentiful for a week. A special hunt for night ground beetles is antium, they run incredibly fast, even if they saw it, it is difficult to catch it in the dark. So far, something like this. I'll throw up more photos.
Of course, the landscapes here are fantastic, almost Martian,
Photos only from the phone, there is no other time. I'll add a few more photos.
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27.09.2017 16:54, STIGMA

Good afternoon dear forumchane!
I'll bring up the topic)

A small report from the unusual areas for me, from the north-eastern part of Sudan, where I am now.
After my usual cool Yakutia, it was very unusual to plunge into the hot desert climate. I have been here for the 4th month, along with the main work (snatches) I observe local insects and various animals. The terrain is desert, rocky, but areas of real sand dunes are very common. Territorial – the Nubian Desert. The hottest period was in June, during the day the temperature rose to 45-47 degrees in the shade, the maximum on the thermometer saw 49. The sand warms up to 55 by 3 o'clock. Walking a couple of kilometers on the hot sands in 2-3 days can be extremely difficult, you can simply not walk. Of course, I didn't expect this when I came here, but oddly enough, in a week the body adapts and 35-40 becomes the usual working temperature.
The life of local residents is boring and not saturated, I got up, prayed, worked (which they don't like at all), had lunch, prayed, received money in the evening, spent everything - insha'allah. But poverty is only an appearance, prices for food and goods as in Moscow, supply is an indicator of demand, if there is a desire-the worker receives 200-250 pupaars. Technicians 300-500. But the villages and hamlets look very contrasting, ragged awnings, sun beds, well, you don't really need anything more.
There's not much in the way of animals, only domestic camels and semi-wild sheep. Many different lizards, some sedentary, and some are worn under 60 km with a size of 10 cm. A couple of times I met small monitor lizards up to 50-60 cm, but they do not let me in and do not want to be photographed.
Insects and other arthropods are more interesting. Scorpions and phalanges are often found under the stones. Phalanges are different, at least two types. There are two types of scorpions.
There is no diversity in beetles, two or three species of large desert black-throats, scarabs, some crunchers and one species, a prickly and large beetle prionotheca coronata.
Butterflies are more interesting, mostly nocturnal, and there are a lot of dustpans on the walls of mine workings. Diurnal conditions are worse, but pigeons of several species fly, feed on the scanty flowers of local shrubs, a couple of species of whiteflies and at least three species of colotis. One of the most interesting is the Colias marnoana jaundice, which is said to be a rare butterfly that flies early in the morning, up to 8 o'clock in the desert in search of flowering shrubs. At night in mid-September, hawk moth flew en masse, but only of one type, such as the barred hawk moth. Scarabs and a couple of other small lamelliferous species were also plentiful for a week. A special hunt for night ground beetles is antium, they run incredibly fast, even if they saw it, it is difficult to catch it in the dark. So far, something like this. I'll throw up more photos.
Of course, the landscapes here are fantastic, almost Martian,
Photos only from the phone, there is no other time. I'll add a few more photos.

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27.09.2017 20:13, STIGMA

If someone can tell me the name of the hawk moth-I will be grateful)

27.09.2017 22:12, KM2200


Of course, the scenery here is fantastic, almost Martian,
But it's true!! If you ignore the bushes and the car in the middle of the frame...

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28.09.2017 12:30, Wild Yuri

If someone can tell me the name of the hawk moth-I will be grateful)

Hyles livornica.
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28.09.2017 12:32, Wild Yuri

I recommend this site for identifying African moths: https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/SPHINGII...20livornica.htm.
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07.10.2017 17:35, Valentinus

At the end of August, we visited South Africa. My old dream came true)
We visited several nature parks in the Western and Northern Cape.
The main purpose of the trip was botanical: to see the spring flowering of ephemera and ephemeroids, to get acquainted with a variety of succulents.
There were very few insects. I'll show you what I captured here.
A detailed report on the trip with photos of plants is available in contact: valentinus66

In Cape Town, Dictyophorus spumans fillies were quite common in flower beds. We brought a few of them with us and have already received three masons. Their clutches are like praying mantises-in foam.
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Tuk-tuk beetle (Psammodes striatus) from the family of black-bodied beetles. Males attract females by tapping their bodies on the surface of rocks.
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Beautiful sawyere in the town of Kwa ttu. Ceroplesis aethiops.
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Grasshopper Hetrodes pupus in the national Park West Coast.
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Sour cherry blossoms in Kwa ttu.
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West Coast National Park.
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Brachycerus obesus
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Golubyanka from the genus Trimenia.
Western Cape, Nuwerus district.
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Julodis sp.
August 21
, 2011 Western Cape, Nuwerus District
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Julodis fascicularis?
August 21
, 2011 Western Cape, Nuwerus District
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Western Cape. Namaqua National Park.
South Africa. 22.08.2017.
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Scarlet is dichotomous.
South Africa,
Northern Cape, Springbok region, Goegap Nature Reserve.
23.08.2017.
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One of the few diurnal butterflies is the Fathead.
North Cape, Springbok County, Goegap Nature Reserve.
23.08.2017.
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Phasis thero!

Namakwa National Park, South Africa.
24.08.2017
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the bear?
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Abscess patch.
South Africa,
Western Cape, a small park in the vicinity of Loeriesfontein.
26.08.2017.
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Ground beetle Thermophilum decemguttatum.
South Africa,
Western Cape, private park Klein Cedarberg.
27.08.2017.
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Well, that's all for insects)
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11.10.2017 8:27, Odessa13

Although not enough, but the eye is happy ! Thanks ! Have you seen any bird-eating spiders?")
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11.10.2017 8:56, СаняМухолов

And what is the general attitude to such naturalists? And with export. Now, when South Africa is visa-free, I think it can drive.

11.10.2017 9:22, Odessa13

No matter how many times I talked to the sailors in Odessa, everyone says that it's weird in Africa, in some countries,cities, captains forbid the crew to go out into the city... what can we say about naturalists?.

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11.10.2017 9:43, СаняМухолов

No matter how many times I talked to the sailors in Odessa, everyone says that it's weird in Africa, in some countries,cities, captains forbid the crew to go out into the city... what can we say about naturalists?.

I also have an authoritative opinion.

11.10.2017 11:43, xoshAmadam

And what is the general attitude to such naturalists? And with export. Now, when South Africa is visa-free, I think it can drive.

I don't know now.
I was in 2014, M. B., something has changed since then.

I drove east from Cape Town, through Tsitsikamma, Drakensberg, Umfolozi, stopping in Kruger and Mapungubwe, and then to Botswana.

I didn't notice "nature" as such outside the protected areas there - from the word "absolutely", everything is either sown with corn and you can't understand what else, or it is one big wasteland, sometimes knocked out in the dust, sometimes decently fucked up.

Visiting protected areas - only with a guide (=escort), along the route, along the trail, with obtaining all kinds of permits and permits.

In the protected areas, the "attitude" to atypical visitors like me was like a particularly dangerous lunatic, the guides-escorts, in my opinion, were more interested in how I would not do the wrong thing.
This was especially unpleasant when trying to do something incomprehensible to them (such as getting off the path and lying down on their belly, taking a picture of a beetle) - they started fussing around and quite non-illusory interfering.

Periodically, police-looking guards with vile faces passed by, checked documents and permits to visit protected areas, warning about the inadmissibility and Prohibition.
Sometimes they tried to offer shmurdyak for inspection, were sent, grimaced with displeasure, but did not whine.

I can imagine how it would all react to a net.

Export interested me only in terms of animals, and therefore did not interest at all - after South Africa, there were still Botswana and Mozambique, it did not make sense to drag stupidly, it would not be guaranteed.

In this kind of acceptance...

11.10.2017 22:58, Valentinus

And what is the general attitude to such naturalists? And with export. Now, when South Africa is visa-free, I think it can drive.

Foreigners, in my opinion, are not searched at all.
In national parks, the rules are stricter than in nature reserves, where no one is particularly interested in what you are doing there.
I wasn't being impudent. The net is short and small. I didn't show it to strangers. Yes, to be honest, there wasn't much to catch. Winter.

23.12.2017 23:40, Yakovlev

briefly about December 2016: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia. My impressions are mixed. Photo by Lesha Prozorov

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07.04.2018 11:22, Танав

I went to relax from Indonesia to Madagascar. And then the eye blurred... The third month I ride on the island of lemurs on a motorcycle. If Indonesia is the easiest country to travel to, but Madagascar is quite difficult. Everything here is not simple, but it is very, very interesting. And national parks are just crazy oases of life in the middle of wastelands, agricultural land and degraded erosion lands. You can't go to the national park without guides, but in fact there are a million trails everywhere and I don't want to go, no one will follow you and put a stick in the wheels. Ranumafana, Kirindi-ideal for independent walking in the forest, you can live right in the forest among all this splendor in a tent, dorm or bungalow. I came across a guide in Ranumafan when I was walking myself, he didn't say anything, just smiled. In general, the country is friendly, friendly, I like it.

Most of the material is still on flash drives in negatives. So let's start small. Zumbitse Vohibasia National Park. Gorgeous transitional forest between dry and wet, lots of sifaka, birds. I didn't meet many insects, so I was passing through this national park and only with guides, and you won't see much in 2 hours of walking.

Definition is welcome!

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Well, not insects with your permission.

Large felzuma Standing.

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Sifaka Verro

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08.04.2018 21:07, Танав

Insects of Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. This is a gorgeous tropical dry deciduous forest. I was there a week ago, hung for 3 days (the ticket is purchased for 3 days). It was raining in front of me and apparently it was a good day (judging by the cobwebs under the lamps). Now the rains are ending and there was no summer. But the place is super, you can easily go into the forest alone. And there are lemurs, and snakes, and lizards, and kiwis, and in general all sorts of things... Once during my stay in the park there was rain and even a little hail. The nature there is harsh, in the dry period it is cool and everything is in hibernation.

Definition is welcome, Madagascar's entomofauna is a dark forest for me... Educate us!

There are a lot of butterflies, but I've only seen 20-25 species.

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There are few beetles in plain sight.

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Bedbugs.

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08.04.2018 21:08, Танав

The rest.

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I was surprised by the presence in Madagascar of ants of the same size as Camponotus gigas from Southeast Asia.

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First of all, it is worth noting the chic kivsyakov. There are a lot of them in the park!!!

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Woodlouse-armadillo.

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Spider stuff.

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09.04.2018 6:45, Танав

Identified sailboats. Blue ones are very common on Mad Papilio epiphorbas. Yellow local for those places Papilio morondavana-lucky! There is a similar Papilio grosesmithi all over the island. In turn, both of them are similar to the native Indonesian demoleus.
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28.05.2018 7:39, Танав

Let's move on...

In the unique spiny forest of southwestern Madagascar with an incredible 95% endemic flora. The fauna is smaller, but also interesting. Mangili resort has not only cheap and high-quality housing for 10 euros, a beautiful beach, French wines and women for any donation, but also a plot of excellent spiny forest where I have repeatedly visited in search of birds, six-legged and in general all-all-all...

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Huge and very effective cricket Colossopus grandidieri-the dream of any terrariumist!

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In the culture of such...

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Subcutaneous scorpion.

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A spider of the genus Damastes.

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Chernotelochki.

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Ant lion, small.

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Ant lion palparellus voeltzkowi, large. They say it's the biggest on the island.

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15.06.2018 14:59, Танав

Let's move on. Ranumafana National Park in eastern Madagascar. I really liked this place. I spent a couple of nights right near the entrance to the park in the dormitorium for $ 4. At this time, it was just flying towards the light. And then it began to rain and I moved to the village in a cozy room for 5 bucks and with a hot shower outside, where I spent another 3 nights, and in the afternoon I went to the national park as a hare on a poaching trail. Photos of the night summer from your smartphone. DSLRs will be available later.

Platycalymma viettei

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Closterus sp

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Tarachomantis sp

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Popa spurca male

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