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Saturday 31 March 2012

More creepy crawlies


Here's the gecko. He's very quick and he eats mosquitoes, so I'm happy he's around.


This moth flew into the apartment. It looked more like a bat because of its size.



This cricket was in the reception of the hotel in San Gil we stayed in one night. His body looks like a leaf which would normally be good camouflage, but not here!


A stick insect Horse head Grasshopper (Pseudoproscopia latirostris) at the viewpoint of the Chicamocha Canyon National Park. I wish I'd had a decent close-up of the strange head. It's easy to miss interesting creatures here as they can often, at first glance, appear like something else.


Finally a colourful butterfly on a door of a colonial-style house in historic Barichara.

3 comments:

  1. That is not a stick insect, it is a horse head grasshopper.

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  2. PS wonderful blog - makes me wish that we had emigrated there.

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  3. Thanks very much. I had never heard of horse head grasshoppers. There are lots of surprising insects here - great fun to discover but even better as you learn more about them.

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