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A traditional Northern Thai remedy for a scorpion sting is to rub small onions on the infected area. For centipedes, grill a lump of sticky rice with pork fat and make a poultice. Opium was also rubbed on the wound. |
| larval stage of Calopepla leayana. feeds on Gmelina arborea leaves. | Pillbug (Crustacea: Isopoda) | ||
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| The scorpion on the left was a short-term resident in our house; on the right, Heterometrus spinifer (Arachnidae) | Diplopoda (millipede) probably Polydesmida | Millipedes can grow to nearly 12 inches long | |
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Mecoptera Panorpidae: (scorpion fly) |
antlion (Myrmeleonidae) | ||
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| Owlflies (Ascalaphid, a type of Neuroptera): you find these either at night or in the early morning | |||
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| shurely shome mishtake ...? | hey, this is supposed to be a family website | an antlion- at first I thought it was a giant dragonfly (body @ 10cm. long) | |
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| look like the nymphal skin of a dragonfly: the rocks along this stream were covered with them | something eating something else (sticklers for accuracy might want to know that the consumer is a mantid) | ||
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| Blattoptera (Cockroach) |
I thought these were snakeflies (but they're not, they're Alderflies - Megaloptera) |
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| morning yoga | Plecoptera keeping a low profile | ||
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this centipede was doing his best to walk off with the moths before I could take their picture. As he was only 14" or so long he was no match for me... they can deliver a painful bite. Family: SCOLOPENDRIDAE Species: Scolopendra ssp. (presumably S.subspinipes) | ||
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| Caddis Fly - Order Trichoptera (Macrostemum midas) | pillbug again | look out! there's a pillbug coming | |
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Neostylopyga Rhombifolia (Blattodea, Blattidae) with protruding egg case. This is the Harlequin Cockroach, which produces a chemical (amyl acetate) that smells like pear drops and with which it defends itself against predators | Find out some amazing cockroach facts |
| cave dwelling cockroach | |||
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| another Pillbug (Crustacea: Isopoda) I think |
I guess these are also beetle larvae |
moth's cocoon- but I wasn't around to see what emerged | |
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| another sad end for a moth | the birds were picking off the moths faster than I could get to them on Doi Inthanon |
this fellow needs no introduction |
finding leeches is one of the pleasures of a walk in a damp forest |
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| Scutigerids (Chilopoda) can run at 16in per second- I only just caught up with him | earwig (Dermaptera: Forficulidae) | ||
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| found this scorpion in front of a neighbour's house one night (Heterometrus spinifer (Arachnidae)); as there are young children around I removed him before they could harm him. some scorpion facts | I'm not the only one hunting insects | ||
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owflies are most often seen around dawn |
the pattern on this owlfly is like a stick man | ||
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| Trichoptera (caddisfly) Macrostemum floridum | earwig (Dermaptera: Forficulidae) | looks like a flat pillbug | bean bug, Riptortus linealis : Coreidae. |
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| a snail (I identified this myself) - for some reason no one eats them. Achatina fulica * | Plecoptera (Stone fly) | I rescued this baby scorpion (@1cm long) from the washing machine |
Blattoptera |
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| Heterometrus spinifer (Arachnidae) | owlfly | owlfly | |
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| glow worm display (actually, I made that up- these were just some passing UFO's) | glow worm taken with the flash | ||
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| Telyphonus sp. (Uropyge family) Whip scorpion | dunno what this is- found it in the ground: do now, it's an antlion larva | antlion | |
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| another attractive cockroach | scorpion form the Burmese border | ||
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| another uninvited house guest asked to leave | owlfly | ||
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| don't know what these are* but they're tiny (the large white one about 3mm long) and they're known locally as khao tork and sold in the market as a delicacy *I do now - ladybird larvae feeding on aphids |
Common lacewing (Neuroptera Chrysopidae) |
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| a small Mayfly (Ephemeroptera Baetidae) photographed in February | Mayfly again | more mayflies | |
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| stonefly larva (Plecoptera) | Dobson Fly | Lacewing (Chrysopidae) | |
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| antlion | |||
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| land crab ready to do battle | |||
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| snails mating | small termite mound | ||
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| This looks to me like a mantidfly (Mantispidae) | Forficulidae (earwig) | ||