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...They will rarely be found swimming or sitting in water like many other frogs and toads but are commonly found in and around buildings where lights attract a source of insect food...
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...Destruction of habitat for development and chemical control of their (insect) food species severely restricts their range.
Traditional, cultural 'taboo' results in unjustified persecution...
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...While you are on your African safari you can prevent insect bites as follows:
Cover your arms and legs as the evening approaches. Use light colored clothing to cover exposed skin areas - especially around the ankles...
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Termites, ants, insect larvae, certain plants.
Where best to see them in Kruger
Open savanna grassland, particularly where there are lots of termite mounds and anthills...
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...Insect prey is scavenged on the ground, and sometimes dug out. Small vertebrates are also taken on occasion. Troop members are always on the alert for predators while foraging...
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...In the wild they feed on plant roots, rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, fruits and insect larvae which are rooted from the subsurface soil.BehaviourBush Pigs are also the largest animals in the subregion to build nests...
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..."Consider for a moment the impact of failed insect pollination on fruit and crop production - it will have a disastrous effect on food production."..
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...These alert and ever busy creatures carry their long tails extended backwards.DietPrimarily vegetarian, but like most rodents will take insect prey. Tree squirrels use their forefeet to manipulate food items when feeding...
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...In the 'INSECT WORLD' a variety of 'mouth parts' can be identified - some only with magnification...
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...Insect-eating birds feed on the insects attracted by the flowers. Starlings, monkeys and baboons eat the flowers, monkeys eat the seeds, birds eat the aril on the seeds and the leaves are browsed by game and black rhino also eat the bark...
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...The tail wagging may indicate excessive insect activity. It may be a vital form of herd communication. It may be a cooling mechanism - but the energy loss involved would appear metabolically irrelevant. ..
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Insect Biodiversity Studied With Enthusiasm
...Insect Biodiversity Studied With EnthusiasmInsect Biodiversity Studied With EnthusiasmHow many ant species do you know?..English
Let Sleeping Frogs Lie
...They will rarely be found swimming or sitting in water like many other frogs and toads but are commonly found in and around buildings where lights attract a source of insect food...English
Finding A Way To Effectively Monitor Kruger Biodiversity
...The insect life of the park is sufficient to sustain 39 different species of insectivorous bats...English
Threatened Chameleons
...Destruction of habitat for development and chemical control of their (insect) food species severely restricts their range.
Traditional, cultural 'taboo' results in unjustified persecution...English
Biocontrol in Kruger
...In this way the insect and plant populations track one another, with the weevil population increases and decreases mirroring, but slightly lagging behind the plant population's trends, showing synchrony between insect and plant populations...English
EWT Monitors DDT Use
...People are advised to stay indoors during these periods, or cover exposed skin with light clothing or insect repellants. The ankles are the most critical area...English
Animal Intolerance
...Solifuges or 'sun spiders' racing around cleaning up any insect prey in their path to satisfy their voracious appetites...English
Traditional Cuisine With A Difference
...Winas Mashego, the conservation officer at Mariepskop, is concerned because the harvesters are chopping down trees to access the insect...English
Waxy Homes Children's Treats
...scurrying around on the leaves.Guin Zambatis, curator of the Skukuza Biological Reference Collection in the Kruger National Park, suggests these little critters are Arytania mopane from the family Psylidae.Not much is known about the small sap sucking insect..English
Young Conservationists Back the Bats at Letaba
...Due to Letaba's riverside location, a wide variety of bats are found within camp, including four insect-eating species; the Angolan free-tailed bat, the little free-tailed bat, the Mauritian tomb bat and the yellow house bat...English
Help on General Kruger Park Questions
...While you are on your African safari you can prevent insect bites as follows:
Cover your arms and legs as the evening approaches. Use light colored clothing to cover exposed skin areas - especially around the ankles...English
DNA Barcodes Reveal Environmental Secrets
...Insect pollinatorsThe ecosystem service of plant pollination by insects has a global value estimated at more than R5100 billion a year...English
Small Creatures
...Food
Termites, ants, insect larvae, certain plants.
Where best to see them in Kruger
Open savanna grassland, particularly where there are lots of termite mounds and anthills...English
Rarely do a Restored Wetland Match Conditions of the Original
...While restored wetlands may look superficially similar - and the animal and insect populations may be similar, too - the plants take much longer to return to normal and establish the carbon resources in the soil that make for a healthy ecosystem.Moreno-Mateos..English
Dwarf Mongoose
...Insect prey is scavenged on the ground, and sometimes dug out. Small vertebrates are also taken on occasion. Troop members are always on the alert for predators while foraging...English
...In the wild they feed on plant roots, rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, fruits and insect larvae which are rooted from the subsurface soil.BehaviourBush Pigs are also the largest animals in the subregion to build nests...English
Is August the New September?
..."Consider for a moment the impact of failed insect pollination on fruit and crop production - it will have a disastrous effect on food production."..English
Tree Squirrel
...These alert and ever busy creatures carry their long tails extended backwards.DietPrimarily vegetarian, but like most rodents will take insect prey. Tree squirrels use their forefeet to manipulate food items when feeding...English
You Are What You Eat
...In the 'INSECT WORLD' a variety of 'mouth parts' can be identified - some only with magnification...English
Enviro Perspectives on Insects
...Many predatory species are taking advantage of the increase in insect life. Compared to previous years, recent reports from the lowveld appear to indicate any more encounters with centipedes...English
Chemical Warfare Plants vs Butterflies and Animals
...Plants vs butterflies and animalsCertain plants have the desired effect of keeping insects away, as gardeners in the know use a mixture of chillies and garlic as a spray-on insect repellent, telling these 'pests' or 'goggos' to bug- off...English
Six Weeks and 1900 Traps Reveal Myriad Creepy Crawlies
...Insect specimens were brought back to the laboratory in Skukuza for positive identification and added to the specimen collection housed in the herbarium for later use in further research projects...English
Weeping Boer Bean
...Insect-eating birds feed on the insects attracted by the flowers. Starlings, monkeys and baboons eat the flowers, monkeys eat the seeds, birds eat the aril on the seeds and the leaves are browsed by game and black rhino also eat the bark...English
African Wildlife Research
...The tail wagging may indicate excessive insect activity. It may be a vital form of herd communication. It may be a cooling mechanism - but the energy loss involved would appear metabolically irrelevant. ..English
