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Several mates of mine and myself returned to Yaoshan this weekend. It was a successful trip as evidenced below:
We were greeted by some beautiful butterflies as we made our way first through overgrown rural ways and later into the forests..
My Chinese friend Liu Bin, or "Tony", as we call him (Because he was my student many moons ago).
Ja, dat ben ik dus weer.
No, not for eating! *Slaps local's hand*
Any ideas on the family, genus? It had a 1.5cm body length.
Very cool little skink.
Tony was on fire that day as he made his first catch. He also caught a very evil centipede that is now roaming my house.. :wall:
Chinese women and even some Chinese men fear ZE DREADED MAO MAO CHONG!!! We thought they were cool.
~12-13cm Scolopendra multidens.
Afterwhich we regretedly caught another large Scolopendra multidens with a clutch of eggs. I saw the legs and knew that it was a big one and we moved all rocks around the one it was under and were surprised to see the mother in a slight depression that it had made. After having read what others had said on the forum I made a decision to separate them, which may or may not have been a mistake. Wish me luck.
One of several Macrothele species that we found. Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of their webs before I dug them out.
A species of Long-Horned Beetle..
Another funky Catterpillar.
Peter, an Overseas Chinese living in America, that just got married with one of my wife's classmates and had time to go out with us.
We found a very cool pair of lizards that had eyes that looked similar to a Chameleon. My camera has only 3X zoom so I take great pride in being able to get close enough to take this shot.
At last, after many, many, many mosquito bites, a road!
I wonder what this eventually becomes. Any ideas?
We were greeted by some beautiful butterflies as we made our way first through overgrown rural ways and later into the forests..
My Chinese friend Liu Bin, or "Tony", as we call him (Because he was my student many moons ago).
Ja, dat ben ik dus weer.
No, not for eating! *Slaps local's hand*
Any ideas on the family, genus? It had a 1.5cm body length.
Very cool little skink.
Tony was on fire that day as he made his first catch. He also caught a very evil centipede that is now roaming my house.. :wall:
Chinese women and even some Chinese men fear ZE DREADED MAO MAO CHONG!!! We thought they were cool.
~12-13cm Scolopendra multidens.
Afterwhich we regretedly caught another large Scolopendra multidens with a clutch of eggs. I saw the legs and knew that it was a big one and we moved all rocks around the one it was under and were surprised to see the mother in a slight depression that it had made. After having read what others had said on the forum I made a decision to separate them, which may or may not have been a mistake. Wish me luck.
One of several Macrothele species that we found. Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of their webs before I dug them out.
A species of Long-Horned Beetle..
Another funky Catterpillar.
Peter, an Overseas Chinese living in America, that just got married with one of my wife's classmates and had time to go out with us.
We found a very cool pair of lizards that had eyes that looked similar to a Chameleon. My camera has only 3X zoom so I take great pride in being able to get close enough to take this shot.
At last, after many, many, many mosquito bites, a road!
I wonder what this eventually becomes. Any ideas?
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