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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: Demons in the dust
Translucent and motionless, the Gregarious antlions (Hagenomyia tristis) are virtually invisible as they form large aggregations, often a few hundred strong, in the grassy understory of Mozambican...
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Travels in the Meddle Earth
Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) “Go!” is the last word I hear, and then it’s only the swish of air, panic in my heart, and the river getting closer with every nanosecond. Right at the moment I am ready...
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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: Snug as a bug
A cute African bat bug (Cacodmus villosus), snuggly nestled on the tail membrane of the Banana bat (Neoromicia nana) (Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique) “There is a strange ecto on this vesper”, said...
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Mozambique Diary: Photoshop or not?
Rock scorpion (Hadogenes granulatus) from Bunga Inselberg in Gorongosa, one of the largest scorpions in the world.One of the more entertaining consequences of posting images of obscure, rarely seen...
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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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Puppy-killing scientist smuggles rainforest babies in body cavity
I am pretty sure that taking this very photo in Belize was the beginning of my adventure. I almost got away with it – for five days I had covered my body and slathered insect repellant onto my skin...
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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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Mozambique Diary: Not all flies fly
Tsetse fly (Glossina sp.) from Gorongosa feeding on my blood. Luckily, tsetses in Gorongosa do not carry the dreaded sleeping sickness. After a long hike in the scorching heat of the African savanna...
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African Bats: Conservation in the Time of Ebola
A guest post by Jen Guyton Banana bats (Neoromicia nana) are tiny, insectivorous bats. Their name comes from the preferred roosting habitat of this species – furled leaves of banana plants. The last...
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Treehoppers
Nobody really knows what the strange structures on the head of the Bocydium treehopper are for. They don’t use them in courtship and seem pretty ineffective for defense. “I need to have my vision...
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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: Rescuing a Dragon
A guest post by Jen Guyton In my lap was a specter, one of the most elusive animals in sub-Saharan Africa. I’d been waiting years to see it, and now it was weighing abrasively on my thighs like a sack...
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Involuntary Bioslaughter and Why a Spider is Dead
“Hey, where is the spider post?”, you may be asking if you arrived at this page by following one of the thousands of links that sprung up overnight in the online media and social circuits. In the fine...
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