Last weekend we packed up all our things and moved to a new house out of the town and nearer to beach (1 minute away). The house is slowly starting to feel like home and all of our things are unpacked. Time for some exploring and wildlife spotting! These seems to be a lot of dragonflies …
You know how you can walk past something a thousand times without ever really noticing it, but then once you've seen it once you start to see it everywhere? Well for me that thing is Tiger Beetles. Ever since I first spotted some by a river earlier this month I've been seeing them everywhere! They're …
Sometimes there's nothing better than just walking along the banks of a small stream and watching the dragonflies,damselflies flutter along above it. On this particular occasion whilst walking along one of the streams in Sri Phang-nga National Park i was lucky enough to see the aptly named stream glory damselfly. I was slowly walking along, when suddenly …
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Thailand's biodiversity is absolutely huge which is one of the reasons it is so satisfying to look for wildlife here because you're always finding something you've never seen before. To give you an idea of just how big Thailand's biodiversity is, I've put some figures below that I took from the Convention on Biological Diversity's …
Saw these two grasshoppers a while back and loved their cool colouration and apparently they have a pretty cool name too. They're called the Spot Monkey Grasshopper ( Erianthus serratus) In the photos above the more colourful grasshopper is the male and the brown one is the female.
Most people who've lived in Thailand will be able to tell you horror stories of how a massive spider jumped out on them when they went to the toilet or sprung out from under something in their house. Despite Thailand being home to some truly enormous and terrifying spiders it is also home to a …
Caterpillars are often overlooked with all the attention going to their adult counterparts, well I'm here to change that. Caterpillars can be just as, if not more beautiful than the butterflies or moths they morph into and a lot of the time they can be extremely weird looking too. In this post I'll be showing you some of …
Dragonflies and damselflies have always intrigued me, and here in Thailand, you can see them near most bodies of water. If you really want to see them though, the rainy season is when they come out in force. Small insects that feed on the new growth brought on by the rains become abundant, and shortly …
Most nights we take our dog out for a walk, as it's so much cooler in the evenings. One night my partner was going to take the dog for a walk, she stepped out the house, barefoot and headed for the light switch outside by where we keep our shoes. On her way to the …
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