Africa Wild

Posted: **Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:57 am**

Here's another one from my garden. A very small (< 10mm long) fly of some sort but other than that, I have absolutely no idea!

Posted: **Tue Oct 29, 2013 2:14 pm**

Beautiful colours BT! $\O$

I didn't realise SA had so many different bee varieties!

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Posted: **Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:22 pm**

Toko wrote:Nymph thingie of tribe: Gryllini

Definitely some cricket, Toko..but if that's the nymph I don't want to meet the adult!

Posted: **Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:32 pm**

now I see you say 8 cm

Posted: **Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:34 pm**

Ja! we have normal-sized bricks in SA, you know!

Posted: **Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:50 pm**

Then young oversized Parktown prawn

Posted: **Wed Oct 30, 2013 10:11 am**

Yet another fly I've been unable to identify

Posted: **Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:46 pm**

Pumbaa wrote:
On one of the causeways which we had to cross soon lots of dragonflies could not escape the lens on which Timon focussed them

Is it this one

viewtopic.php?f=247&t=3210#p143711

but are there orange splashes on all wings?

Posted: **Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:50 pm**

Crocothemis erythraea Broad Scarlet or Crocothemis sanguinolenta Little Scarlet

Posted: **Thu Nov 07, 2013 3:46 pm**

BluTuna wrote:Here's another one from my garden. A very small (< 10mm long) fly of some sort but other than that, I have absolutely no idea!

After a search, I think this is possibly a Longlegged Fly - Condylostylus sp.

Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE