insects

Yes, yes, I know I posted a pic of a bee last week, but over the weekend we visited friends of ours for a birthday party and I couldn't help noticing the bees on the Strelitzia flowers outside. So as my colleague PP said the other day. "He probably saw a goggatjie (little bug) somewhere to photograph." And I did... from different angles.

So this may not be Maya the Bee (remember her?) or Bee Movie, but it is a honey bee on a protea. Not much more that I can say than that.

I was looking for nice angles for the flowers I posted yesterday when I found this snail on a leave. Oh well, have camera, will shoot.

Regular visitors my remember that I did a post a couple of weeks ago about a Rain Spider's Nest. This last weekend on our camping trip the people on the site next to us found a rain spider in their caravan and the man caught it and brought it out to release it in to the bush again. As always I had my camera on hand.

I can for the life of me not remember what the ranger said this grasshopper's common name is, but I will put it in when I remember of find out. The Pyrgomorphid Grasshopper (Family Pyrgomorphidae) is a grasshopper in all the sense of the word as they can fly. Their wings are under developed and their hind legs are designed for jumping. They make no sound and is fairly slow moving. Their bright colours warn predators that it is poisonous…

We got to see quite a few smaller things while on the nature walk at Addo Elephant Back Safaris. At one stage we were walking next to the boundary fence and stopped while the ranger was telling us about some plant. I looked around and noticed a pretty big spider sitting on a strand of spiders web literally centimetres from the Damselfly's back. Suddenly every body's attention shifted to the spider and cameras were clicking away. Its real size was…