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Genus AedesObserver
christopher1201Description
On a Honey Euryops. Going with auto suggested match. Interesting red globes under the wings... some kind of parasite?
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Bees (Epifamily Anthophila)Observer
christopher1201Description
On a hawthorn. Spent quite a while in the same flower.
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Baboon Root (Genus Babiana)Observer
dinofelisDescription
Seemingly growing wild off the track.
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Lost Bellbush (Freylinia visseri)Observer
botaneekDescription
one of the world's rarest plants - still surviving - in spite of being ploughed for rooibos tea two years ago! this is currently the only known extant wild population; on deep acid sands over clays
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Mini Stonecrop (Crassula umbellata)Observer
chris_whitehouseDescription
Crassula umbellata
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Cape Dwarf-Eelgrass (Zostera capensis)Observer
petrabroddleDescription
Saltmarsh at the Geelbek Bird Hide.
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Cape Dwarf-Eelgrass (Zostera capensis)Observer
biankefoucheDescription
Crabs creek
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Cape Mouse-ear Chickweed (Cerastium capense)Observer
pdwhugoPlace
Newlands Saddle, Newlands Ravine, Table Mountain (Nature Reserve), Cape Town, South Africa (Google, OSM)
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Bronze Typhonia (Typhonia picea)Observer
magrietbDescription
Familiar bag #1 reared
12 August 2021:
Collected caterpillar on Erica caffra in the veld at the top of 4th street, Kleinmond. It did its secret bagworm thing and I have no idea when it pupated.30 September 2021:
A lovely little male emerged.
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Genus TyphoniaObserver
magrietbDescription
Kleinrivier stokkiebag reared
20 November 2019:
Collected caterpillar on Diospyros glabra at Kleinrivier mountain.23 March 2020:
Beautiful white moth merged.
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Comb Ganna (Lebeckia meyeriana)Observer
mr_fabDescription
Lebeckia meyeriana ...
Listed as Endangered
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Erect Firecarrot (Nanobubon strictum)Observer
tonyrebeloDescription
Carrot
Glorius Fynbos regenerating at 10 months after the fire
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Wiry Ganna (Lebeckia contaminata)Observer
tonyrebeloDescription
coppicing nicely
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philippa5000Description
Two insects fighting over - a bee carcass? I have video too.
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Genus MegastigmusObserver
alfredoreilobodasnevesDescription
Tiny wasp on aloe flower.
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Bootlace Fern (Vittaria isoetifolia)Observer
jeremygilmorePlace
Cecilia Waterfall, Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (Google, OSM)
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Bootlace Fern (Vittaria isoetifolia)Observer
pdwhugoDescription
Hard leaved thing growing in a crevice deep in the overhang
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Longleg Watersnipe Fly (Trichacantha atranupta)Observer
sallyslakDescription
Under a rock overhanging the stream.
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Spicule Rootthug (Thesium spinulosum)Observer
chris_whitehouseDescription
Thesium spinulosum
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Ring-haired Rootthugs (Section Annulata)Observer
charles_stirtonPlace
Drie Kuilen NR, Zebra Cottage, Cape Winelands District Municipality, South Africa (Google, OSM)Description
Stiff resprouting stiff shrub, old stems present, blackish brown. New shoots are glaucous. Leaves appressed to shoot. Inflorescences yellowish green, mouth of flower white. Voucher specimen Stirton & Du Preez 14429 (BOL)
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Pineapple Conebush (Leucadendron corymbosum)Observer
rkctDescription
About 25 in 500 m2
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Ceropegia africanaObserver
don_kDescription
Growing in full sun in crack in rock outcrop, sand fynbos near coast
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Genus QuartiniaObserver
alfredoreilobodasnevesDescription
There was quite a few of these insects on this capeweed.
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christopher1201Description
On some marjoram. Going with auto suggested match.
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Mythimna coraxObserver
magrietbDescription
Kleinmond birdgrass eater reared
16 February 2019:
I noticed evidence of caterpillar activity on a tall grassy thing that came up underneath our birdie seed feeder, and sure enough a fat brown caterpillar was hiding near a leaf axil.1 March 2019:
The caterpillar pupated without a cocoon at the bottom of its tub.23 March 2019:
Moth emerged.
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Genus MythimnaObserver
mothmomDescription
How stunning!!! Found her as a pupa
