some more Singaporean arachnids: I saw a couple species of wandering spiders in the genus recently named genus Bowie. I think the silver-legged one is the aptly named B. argentipes, but haven’t got an ID for the golden one
they’re sizable, chunky spiders, usually found sitting still or prowling through leaf litter for insect prey. the golden ones were quite common where I got these photos, with an adult or juvenile every few feet along the trail.
the genus Bowie was split out of Ctenus last year by Peter Jäger, who also named a huntsman spider after the same singer. I did see Heteropodadavidbowie, but no bright orange bristly adults, only this tiny snowflake of a juvenile
flatid planthopper nymph, Singapore. hemipterans (true bugs) like these have mastered the art of covering oneself in weird waxy filaments, which are shed along with their last juvenile molt, revealing a sleek, gossamer-winged adult
This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That’s 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes’ habitats
Wow, I knew they weren’t in “every African country”, but I didn’t realize just how restricted their range was
Good teachers don’t mind saying “I don’t know” or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.
Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it’s so cool
