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Egg-eating Snake (Dasypeltis scabra)Observer
jacquesmerwe923Description
Hmm, this is why we dont have any chicks this year. At least 11 eggs have gone missing, found out why tonight.
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Large Carpenter Bees (Genus Xylocopa)Observer
lizegreeniezaDescription
Carpenter Bee perched on Bobbejaantjie
Cold morning. It only perched on the bobbejaantjie. It did not eat it. Many, many, many carpenter bees currently along all these rivers - streams. -I read in Mike Picker's book (P. 418) that the females of all carpenter bees have special mites in a chambe
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African Harrier-Hawk (Polyboroides typus)Observer
magrietbDescription
Noisy, restless, but not so disturbed that it didn't finish its meal before flapping off.
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lizegreeniezaDescription
Apocynaceae
Very unhappy plant, parasitized by aphids, which are tended by ants. Recently-burned grassland that is heavily grazed by cattle. Evidence of sheet erosion. Steep gradient leading up to ridge.
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lizegreeniezaDescription
Pachycarpus concolor
Ample rocky outcrops on top of ridge, burned annually (firebreak), adjacent nature reserve. Overgrazing is a massive recent threat to this plateau, with tell-tale signs of habitat degradation that is already starting to occur. Overgrazing was not a problem 5 years ago.
