Adicionado na data
janeiro 28, 2024
02:13 PM UTC
Adicionado na data
novembro 21, 2023
11:10 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
janeiro 21, 2023
07:27 PM AEST
Descrição
About 25 mm long. Matthew, I have emailed you re these.
Adicionado na data
junho 15, 2019
10:00 PM SAST
Descrição
I think it is family Pyralidae but am not sure. The behaviour of this moth - observed several times on different flower species - is that of a hunter (predator) rather than a nectar-feeder.
Adicionado na data
abril 11, 2013
04:38 AM SAST
Descrição
hoverfly
roughly 9mm body length
Adicionado na data
abril 28, 2019
05:38 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
abril 2, 2019
09:52 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
abril 2, 2019
09:48 AM SAST
Descrição
Feeding on powdery mildew on Leonotis leonurus
Adicionado na data
maio 28, 2018
10:04 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
fevereiro 23, 2019
03:38 PM SAST
Descrição
Feasting on aphids, which in turn were feasting on Aloe cooperi, with ants defending the aphids. Usual stories of life, death and the underbelly of the beast. Harmonia axyridis also present, just to complicate matters
Adicionado na data
agosto 14, 2018
08:54 PM SAST
Descrição
On Scabiosa africana (planted)
Adicionado na data
abril 8, 2019
03:26 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
abril 8, 2019
03:27 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
abril 30, 2019
06:50 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 21, 2019
07:38 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
outubro 1, 2019
09:30 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
maio 19, 2018
07:44 PM SAST
Descrição
Cabbage white on Scabiosa incisa
LJinteraction
Adicionado na data
abril 26, 2018
01:36 PM SAST
Descrição
Feeding on Crassula nectar in a garden
Adicionado na data
julho 26, 2013
06:35 AM SAST
Descrição
African vagrant
This one was hanging on the plant (Hamellia chrysantha) - seemingly waiting for the sun to warm it. Did not appear to be feeding.
Sexually dimorphic. Possibly male. Females are yellow (sometimes white), males are white.
Adicionado na data
julho 7, 2013
08:18 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 5, 2013
12:09 PM SAST
Descrição
Cacyreus
body roughly 15mm - maybe smaller
Best description of this species EVER to be found
at this observation by Richard
EDIT: Link to Richard^s observation now fixed
Adicionado na data
abril 25, 2013
09:15 PM SAST
Descrição
Charaxes brutus subsp. natalensis
Did not manage to get a photo of dorsal view but definitely white-barred. Drinking sap from a cut Searsia pendulina
Adicionado na data
setembro 9, 2013
08:34 AM SAST
Descrição
Tephritid fly
Roughly 4mm to 5mm total length - might be same as
http://www.ispot.org.za/node/205116 - probably Euaresta sp. have not yet tried to key it. Key to Euaresta species - provided in linked observation
Adicionado na data
julho 28, 2013
12:14 PM SAST
Descrição
Thomisus pink
Body length roughly 8mm. On Helichrysum with prey. Spotted by my (then) 4 year old son.
Adicionado na data
junho 28, 2019
12:10 PM SAST
Descrição
With Apis mellifera capensis
What
Abelhas
(Epifamília Anthophila)
Adicionado na data
fevereiro 8, 2014
08:22 PM SAST
Descrição
Cape honeybee getting noshed by a mantid
Adicionado na data
junho 20, 2013
02:00 PM SAST
Descrição
small red-necked pollen-eater - Malachiinae
EDIT: More photos uploaded at this (http://www.ispot.org.za/node/204065) observation
Small beetle, roughly 3-4mm. Can fly. Metallic (or is that iridescent?) green, pitted elytra, which do NOT appear to be striated (although I could be SO wrong). Bright orange / red smooth (unflanged) pronotum - which appears almost bulbous. Pollen feeder. Seen to be active on roses as well as on Asteraceae, but mostly seen on Arctotheca calendula.
Have hunted for a source for this beetle ID and have narrowed it down to possibly being Cleridae OR Meloidae OR Melyridae OR Malachiidae - but it may well be something completely different.
All I have proved to myself is 1) that the taxonomy for the Coleoptera is due for a HUGE shakedown and 2) that beetle diversity is quite incredible. Have taken a flyer here on family...
The closest photo I have yet found (for South Africa) Was this one by Colin - for a species he names as Spilocephalus viridipennis but I am fairly sure that this is not the species here
Adicionado na data
abril 25, 2013
07:06 PM SAST
Descrição
Thomisus - yellow crab spider
Bright lemon yellow crab spider on Arctotheca calendula, with fly species.
Adicionado na data
maio 17, 2013
12:57 PM SAST
Descrição
Monkey beetle sex wars
Two monkey beetles making more (MBs) on a planted vygie, when a third tried to muscle in on some action. Hover your mouse over the photos for a bit of a description - this dispute carried on for around 3 minutes (judging from the times on the photos)
Adicionado na data
abril 11, 2013
04:32 AM SAST
Descrição
IMG_2465_fly on chrysanthemoides
nectar-feeding fly on Chrysanthemoides monilifera. Fly roughly 9-10mm in body length. Long legs - made me think it might be a mosquito for a long time.
Adicionado na data
julho 6, 2019
10:10 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 2, 2019
08:40 AM SAST
Descrição
On Osteospermum moniliferum
Adicionado na data
agosto 6, 2019
10:34 PM SAST
Descrição
Large (roughly 10 mm body length), with a very bristly bottom
Adicionado na data
julho 8, 2019
08:35 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 8, 2019
08:33 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 6, 2019
10:10 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 2, 2019
08:40 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 2, 2019
08:40 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
dezembro 23, 2021
06:29 PM SAST
Descrição
One of a number of Xylocopa individuals nesting in Phragmites stems. The stem in question was roughly 15-18mm diameter (at most). The Carpenter Bee is not much larger than a Cape Honeybee - probably about 1 and a third times a honeybee's size. I have a suspicion that it might be Xylocopa scioensis because there was a population of these critters in the Phragmites stand (but also because of the GISS).
It may well be a different Xylocopa. Seriously cute little things - X. caffra mini-me
X. caffrariae is a synonym of X. scioensis (see nesting info in:
[J. enl. Soc. sth. Afr. 1974
Vol. 37, No.2, pp. 261-281
Biology and behaviour of Carpenter
bees in southern Africa
by R. H.WATMOUGH]
Adicionado na data
maio 23, 2023
05:15 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
fevereiro 6, 2018
10:43 AM SAST
Descrição
About 5mm. This species consistently seen on or near Persicaria hydropiper, an alien wetland plant.
Adicionado na data
fevereiro 10, 2023
12:05 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
janeiro 24, 2021
01:20 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
fevereiro 27, 2021
09:48 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
novembro 7, 2021
06:22 PM UTC
Adicionado na data
novembro 22, 2016
07:33 PM CET
Descrição
Haroldius sp.
Body size 2,3mm
Adicionado na data
abril 26, 2020
12:57 PM UTC
Adicionado na data
outubro 22, 2021
11:15 AM HST
Adicionado na data
outubro 2, 2021
05:30 AM PDT
Adicionado na data
julho 30, 2013
09:27 AM SAST
Descrição
Kleinmond vygie
Adicionado na data
dezembro 7, 2020
10:24 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
dezembro 16, 2019
07:48 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
maio 16, 2015
02:24 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
novembro 13, 2020
10:53 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
março 10, 2020
01:30 PM SAST
Descrição
Still(s) from video. Eating pollen on spadix of Zantedeschia aethiopica inflorescence. Standing on snail curled up in the base of the inflorescence.
Adicionado na data
agosto 23, 2020
08:17 PM CAT
Adicionado na data
outubro 24, 2012
06:38 AM SAST
Descrição
Skoenlapperbos - Polygala pinifolia
Spent the weekend in Prins Albert, rained almost the whole time, only got out into the veld for about two hours.
Adicionado na data
setembro 8, 2020
12:49 PM SAST
Descrição
Found on the front dunes of Blombos (near the cave), uncommonly large flowers for Heliophila
Adicionado na data
fevereiro 1, 2015
08:14 PM SAST
Descrição
Sunbird visiting Erica verticillata
Adicionado na data
setembro 10, 2018
11:37 AM SAST
Descrição
On planted Leucospermum cordifolium or similar?
Adicionado na data
abril 28, 2019
06:20 PM SAST
Descrição
apologies for the silhouette - it was against the light. Regular robbers of nectar from the neighbour's Hibiscus hedge
Adicionado na data
junho 2, 2019
06:49 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 15, 2019
08:37 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 15, 2019
10:37 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 19, 2019
07:00 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 19, 2019
07:00 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 19, 2019
10:20 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 19, 2019
10:21 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 24, 2019
04:02 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 29, 2019
12:27 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
janeiro 13, 2014
11:05 AM SAST
Descrição
Owl-fly
These fly into the house occasionally.
Adicionado na data
maio 5, 2020
08:01 AM UTC
Adicionado na data
abril 26, 2020
02:33 PM UTC
Adicionado na data
agosto 1, 2013
03:51 PM SAST
Descrição
monarch-like catterpillar
I looked the monarch up, but those have black antennae, which this one does not have.
Here beigey bands across the body, alternating with black ones, each of the latter carryiing a white double-dot.
Orangey-red head.
No antennae or other appendages.
Adicionado na data
julho 21, 2016
03:17 PM SAST
Descrição
Fierce-faced gall inhabitant - Searsia
Adicionado na data
janeiro 29, 2013
02:07 PM SAST
Descrição
Geometridae (Measuring Worm)
Adicionado na data
outubro 6, 2019
07:40 AM UTC
Descrição
A day later, and the "ladybird" is still on the same plant. It has however changed its position, and when I passed it a second time, it was crawling forward. I'm recording it every few days.
Adicionado na data
junho 18, 2015
01:14 PM SAST
Descrição
New Bergville Inmate
Adicionado na data
outubro 14, 2019
02:39 PM EDT
Adicionado na data
outubro 11, 2019
09:51 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
outubro 11, 2019
08:24 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
dezembro 3, 2018
03:50 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
outubro 3, 2019
10:52 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
outubro 12, 2014
02:57 AM HST
Descrição
Geissorhiza tenella
Adicionado na data
setembro 19, 2019
10:32 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
setembro 6, 2019
10:55 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
setembro 25, 2018
04:44 PM SAST
Descrição
In a burnt area, seemed to be only one.
Adicionado na data
agosto 20, 2018
09:26 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
setembro 30, 2018
03:17 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
agosto 1, 2019
01:29 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 4, 2019
11:43 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 17, 2019
10:46 AM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 14, 2019
08:27 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 15, 2019
05:29 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 14, 2019
10:51 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
julho 12, 2019
03:17 AM HST
Adicionado na data
junho 9, 2019
05:34 PM SAST
Descrição
Black sugar ant found foraging on a rotten log.
Adicionado na data
julho 12, 2019
01:36 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 27, 2019
01:39 PM SAST
Adicionado na data
junho 15, 2019
05:49 PM SAST
Descrição
Thyreus bee sleeping in lavender.