Namaste.
Foreign places often have very interesting looking mini-beast populations and Nepal is no different. Many of the insects I have encountered have been similar to, but often bigger and more colourful, than the same species I have found in the UK.
Here is a selection!
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| large red beetle. |
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This black and white moth was feeding on
fruit from a wild tree in the forest |
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| Not quite sure what this creature is, beetle maybe? |
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| Millipede - about 30 cm long |
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| Large praying mantis on the window frame in my flat |
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| and another on my grandsons arm |
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| Large speckled spider on a piece of bamboo. |
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Dragon fly - during the monsoon time there
were swarms of them in the sky above Besisahar. |
However the cockroaches, which seem to plague me in my flat, are so horrible that I have not photographed them!! Also very common are ants and the mosquitos during the monsoon time make it worth sleeping under a mosquito net.
All in all the small creatures are not too daunting or scary - except cockroaches!!
