The trail to the kuMfazana Hide here on the eastern shores of Lake St. Lucia, in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, passes through a stretch of swamp forest that is positively bursting with butterflies, like this Novice (Amauris ochlea). Novice (Amauris ochlea) Novice (Amauris ochlea)
Summertide Rambles 20 January 2021 — de Wets Wild
In 2019-2020, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), around 20 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda faced acute food insecurity due to swarms of desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria). In Kenya, the outbreak represented the worst locust crisis in 70 years; by its peak, the country was tackling over……
CABI research on desert locusts helps safeguard the food crops of millions — The Invasives Blog
Black-headed weaver, Tanzania, January 2018 And some music to get you into the upside down mood: And to learn more about the black-headed weaver, pope over to Becky in Portugal – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 4 January 2021 Posted as part of Becky’s January SquareUp …
An upside down bird — Travel with Intent
We spent a lot of time today at the various waterholes in the Addo Elephant National Park. Thanks to the summer heat they were all occupied by herds of elephants, whose antics are always fun to watch!
Summertide Rambles 30 December 2020 — de Wets Wild
The open landscapes of the Karoo National Park really shows off the wildlife that inhabit this arid environment to great effect – in this case a beautiful gemsbok that we saw this morning just after sunrise.
Summertide Rambles 17 December 2020 — de Wets Wild
Amblyospiza albifrons During the breeding season, which extends through spring and summer, Thick-billed Weavers can be found near and in marshes and other wetlands with rank grass and reedbeds, but they roam more widely at other times and are then found from forest edges to suburban parks and gardens. They use their strong bills (ask […]
Thick-billed Weaver — de Wets Wild
Swarms of desert locusts fly into the air from crops in Katitika village in Kenya’s Kitui county on Jan. 24, 2020. In the worst outbreak in a quarter-century, hundreds of millions of the insects swarmed into Kenya from Somalia and Ethiopia, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) Source: In 2020, […]
In 2020, AP photographers captured a world in distress — THE OLD GUV LEGENDS
Parahyaena brunnea Brown Hyenas are found in a wide selection of habitats, occurring from moist mountain grasslands to desert coastlines (earning them their old Afrikaans name “Strandwolf”, translating as “Beach Wolf”). They’re often found near rocky hills, these providing shelter in the form of dense vegetation and caves, but where this isn’t available they will […]
Brown Hyena — de Wets Wild
Paralethe dendrophilus The Forest Beauty or Forest Pride is, as its name suggests, a beautiful butterfly inhabiting temperate coastal and mountain forests in eastern South Africa, from the Eastern Cape to the escarpment of Mpumalanga and Limpopo. It is a shy butterfly that flies low and fast and hides in the shade, usually against a […]
Forest Beauty — de Wets Wild
Tchagra australis An adaptable member of the shrike family, the Brown-crowned Tchagra occurs in a wide range of savanna and woodland associations where it forages mainly low to the ground in the undergrowth. It feeds primarily on insects and other invertebrates and only very occasionally on small reptiles. Brown-crowned Tchagras form monogamous pairs with the […]
Brown-crowned Tchagra — de Wets Wild
