Tag Archives: immatures

Millipede assassin bug

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Ted C. MacRae

I continue the hemipteran theme begun in the last post with this photograph I took in South Africa below the Waterberg Range in Northern (now Limpopo) Province. I recognized them as members of the family Reduviidae (assassin bugs), and since … Continue reading →

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Lions in South Africa

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Ted C. MacRae

Joerie, Joerie, botter en brood, as ek jou kry, slaat ek jou dood. Doodlebugs, joerie, shunties, toritos—these are but a few of the many colloquial names given to amusing little creatures that many people know simply as antlions (or translation … Continue reading →

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Goin’ fishin’

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Ted C. MacRae

For the past two days I’ve been in Sioux County, Nebraska – just east of Wyoming and just south of South Dakota. As I traveled up through the western panhandle to arrive at this spot, I was pleasantly surprised by … Continue reading →

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