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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Hi GB .

#1 green butt .
#2 brown/orange butt.
#3 Red dragon .
#4 orange/brown dragon .

Easy peasy O**


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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lol Okie. \O

Try African Migrant/vagrant for the green butterfly maybe?

See here (scroll down the page a bit)....

viewtopic.php?f=247&t=679&start=50

Have a look through the pages here for the Dragonflies.......

viewtopic.php?f=247&t=3210

Otherwise wait for ExFmem to log on as she is excellent at id-ing insects etc. \O


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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I spoke to a friend , and it appears that these dragonflies could be : #1 - Broad Scarlet dragonfly-- Crocothemis erythraea , and
#2 - Little Scarlet D/fly -- Crocothemis sanguinolenta .

Whatever happened to Toko -O-


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Toko has had a wonderful turnaround in her life, okie! Abroad! \O \O \O


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Dewi wrote:lol Okie. \O

Try African Migrant/vagrant for the green butterfly maybe?

See here (scroll down the page a bit)....

viewtopic.php?f=247&t=679&start=50

Have a look through the pages here for the Dragonflies.......

viewtopic.php?f=247&t=3210

Otherwise wait for ExFmem to log on as she is excellent at id-ing insects etc. \O
Thank you


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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0/* Your second butterfly is Acraea anemosa (common names: Broad-bordered acraea or Christmas-tree acraea :-) )

It is not in AW's bfly book yet...hint, hint :-0 \O


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ExFmem wrote:0/* Your second butterfly is Acraea anemosa (common names: Broad-bordered acraea or Christmas-tree acraea :-) )

It is not in AW's bfly book yet...hint, hint :-0 \O
Thank you.


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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I don't know if somebody has already seen this one :-?
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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0/* nan

My first impression is that it is a shield bug or stink bug of some type (Order Hemiptera, Heteroptera - true bugs).


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