Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Some ill soul (probably of the Victorian area) named these moths "Handmaidens" 0- I'd love to know why -O-


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Maybe they follow a bigger one around, like the shark and the remora fish -O-


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Dragonfly, Nelspruit summer:
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^Q^ Unmistakable dragonfly with that black tail O**


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Eastern blacktail? ..0..


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Small butterfly, 2cm.

Nelspruit summer


I like the tails!

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Do you know what color its upper wings are? -O-


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:-?

There are often little ones with blue upper wings!


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O/\ O/\ O/\


Crudaria leroma - Silver-spotted Grey


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O/\ O/\

Will get another blue one to make sure, they are quite common! \O

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