Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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This is the place to ask for identification. Please post your pictures here and add location and date of the sighting.

Interesting photos of identified species will be added to the relevant Africa Wild Insect book here on our forum. Usually new entries or additional photos don't show as new posts, but are filed according to taxonomic order (and not according to date of the forum post).
If you don't want your photos to be included to the AW database, please add a comment to your post here.


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13. Kruger
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20. Addo Elephant National Park
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27. Grasshopper – November - Kruger
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no hairs, red head, solitary, Namaqua

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0/* mposthumus, are these all from KNP?


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Image © Super Mongoose
Ndumo Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Here's the unidentified stuff from my last few days in the garden.

A mini grasshopper.
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BluTuna wrote: A mini grasshopper.
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Short-horned Grasshopper nymph, family Acrididae. About 90% confidence.
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Assassin bug of some type? VERY tiny.

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