My students often spot me walking around the school campus and through the copses behind my office looking for wildlife. They often observe me with specualtive looks from their air-conditioned rooms, not understanding my want to be outside in 35 degree heat! This being said, they are paying attention to my actions and I try to …
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Stream Glory (Neurobasis chinensis chinensis)
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 Best Animal Websites
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 …
Spot Monkey Grasshopper ( Erianthus serratus)
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.
Sparkling Spiders
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 …
Banded Bullfrog Update
After writing a post about banded bullfrogs earlier this week I started to wonder if the one that inhabits my plant pots is still around. It's been a long time since I've seen his chubby little face poking out of the soil. I was starting to wonder if he's moved on or was just buried somewhere …
School Snake
Working at a school you don't always see a lot of wildlife, it's usually too loud and too busy so the wildlife tends to stay away. Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to work in a school that has a very large campus with ponds, fields, forests and meadows for wildlife to live in. This has allowed …
Banded Bullfrog
Anyone who has lived in Thailand has probably seen one of these frogs. With their little fat bodies, orange stripes, pudgy round faces and their bulbous eyes.... what's not to love about them? They are the Banded Bullfrogs (Kaloula pulchra) You will hear these frogs a lot, especially during the rainy season, although you may not …
Four Snakes In One Day
During the rainy season here it can get a bit overwhelming when it rains for days and days on end. You begin to wonder if you'll ever have dry shoes to wear and if you'll ever be able to do anything outside. I get the impression too sometimes that even the wildlife starts to get fed …
Caterpillars
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 …
Nick's Wild Life 