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I never knew they can look that hairy

Alf wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:32 pm I never knew they can look that hairy

Many Tiger moths (Arctiinae) (That is what I think is the red-faced caterpillar from Addo) have hairs with sharply pointed tips and tiny barbs projecting from the surface of the hair. That's a defence mechanism and causes sort of dermatitis when you touch them.

Other caterpillars have urticating hairs associated with poison glands at the base of the hair and cause more injury.

I know the one with less hair

Klipspringer wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:27 pm

nan wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:12 pm yes the same, and sorry it was from Addo... same date
we went to both places with Michele this year and sorry I have mixed a little bit

I searched in all pages, dont' find this one, where do you find it please

click on the arrow next to "nan wrote" and you find the post I have quoted

It's from this ID topic

thank you, I have change the place

Found another bug on my lawn

Can the experts help with ID please

Tailed Net-winged Beetle
Lycus trabeatus

Both larvae and adults are distasteful and aposematically coloured.

Klippies!

Mrs Dwarf sends these small eggs (very hard) on a white stinkwood from Marloth:

Richprins wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 5:49 pm Klippies!

Mrs Dwarf sends these small eggs (very hard) on a white stinkwood from Marloth:

Likely empty egg cases of an Emperor Moth (Saturniidae), some attach the eggs to twigs, most species on the underside of leaves.

One should watch out for caterpillars on the tree

Celtis africana is a recorded foodplant of Bunaea alcinoe and Pseudobunaea tyrrhena

Some kind of fly? 2.5 cm

Nelspruit

Waiting for fly Id from other source!