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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-10-2010 18:38
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I thought a few people here might be interested in Paul Bertner's (pbertner on DI) blog being posted almost live from the jungles of Guyana (British Guiana) called "Rainforests". (slight bad language and gore content warning) and his accompanying Flickr photostream. One of his recent images really amazed me because he has a series of photos showing a tachinid fly attacking a sphingid larva. I can't really say much about the tachinid (other than it looks like Exoristinae and something maybe close to Houghia sp.):  caterpillar vs- tachinid by pbertner, on Flickr It's very unusual to get a photo showing oviposition behaviour even in Europe so to capture it in the rainforests is even more amazing  I'd encourage everyone to give his blog a read (remembering that the posts are listed in reverse time order - oldest at the bottom) and have a look at his Flickr 
Edited by ChrisR on 22-10-2010 18:38 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 22-10-2010 20:41
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
He does not have a link on Facebook I think. A pity. The photo's are brilliant.
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-10-2010 20:47
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, I haven't seen a FaceBook profile for him but he would probably find it useful. His blog is very readable and he has a good turn of phrase
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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