photo crazy

seeing as how i can put em on the blog now, here's some more, hopefully this'll keep you all quiet when i fail to update for weeks again.

this is a caterpillar on a mango leaf - that is some serious camouflage, it looked better in real life, the flash sort of de-camouflaged it a bit, but when i first looked at it i couldn't see the caterpillar. i was about 6 inches away and still couldn't see it



next - a preying mantis. you don't see too many of these out here but i think they're ace. this is a baby one, you can tell because it hasn't got wings. the best thing about them is that if you make a movement close to them they turn their heads and LOOK at you, like the alien in alien. and you think wow, is this an INSECT? certainly cleverer than dogs anyway, i'd much rather have preying mantises protecting my home than stupid dogs any day.



this next one is really cool:



it looks like an ant but it's not at all; it's a SPIDER. really! it's not the best photo but you can just about see - it has 8 legs but it carries the front two up in the air, pretending they're antennae. spiders have loads of eyes but this ant-mimic has one pair very big so they look like ant eyes. the key is in the way it moves. this thing runs like a spider, quick little dashes, and not like an ant runs at all.

right that's all for tonight, more calpol plz nurse