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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Toko wrote:Sea anemone, perhaps family Actiniidae
Thanks Toko :ty: I was hoping that it might be a nudibranch, but I think that you are right. However, other sea anemones that I've seen are round, so this shape is something a bit different. :-?


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ExFmem, that's pretty cool news O/\ O/\ O/\

Thanks for investigating 0/0


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Can anyone help with an ID for this caterpillar? Seen at Rondevlei (Cape Town) in late September 2013.

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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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The caterpillar is of the genus Bombycomorpha (Lasiocampidae), and there are several similar ones lol Bombycomorpha bifascia or B. pallida

Another one for our unidentified caterpillar book =O: O/\ ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^


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=O: I'm sure that I can find a few more for that special book, Toko O** Thanks for your helpful pointers as always :ty:


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Here are two more insects that I need ID help for, both seen in my garden in Darling in December 2014.

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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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I love the red bugs, arks, lovely capture of Caeneus carnifex ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^


The moth is family Geometridae, but for genus or species 0:


And I had a closer look into the Bombycomorphas, your caterpillar is Bombycomorpha bifascia ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^


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love too the red bugs ^Q^


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Thanks so much for these IDs, Toko O0
@nan: glad that you also enjoyed my "fire bugs". My garden in Darling is full of interesting surprises O\/


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I stopped in Darling last october... but you was in Kruger 0*\


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