Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 5:58 pm
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Insect or Invertebrates Identification
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2021 4:48 pm
Grasshopper? 6cm, Nelspruit summer
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:22 am
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 6:48 pm
Maybe Acrida acuminata - but you need to see the wings - make him fly 
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 6:51 pm
He is long gone! 
Is it a katydid?
Is it a katydid?
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:58 am
A slantface grasshopper
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 10:39 am
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 4:57 pm
Large ant, 1.5 cm, Nelspruit hillside summer.
(Sorry for bad pics..
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(Sorry for bad pics..
)Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 5:50 pm
She is a mutillid wasp (aka velvet ant, but it is not an ant). They are highspeed runner mothers searching for nests for ovipositing.
They have a painful sting.
They have a painful sting.
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 6:56 pm
Insects 
I would have sworn that it was an ant
I would have sworn that it was an ant