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JohnDM
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Ancient, in Chiang Mai 25+ years: bugs; traditional music of ethnic groups in Thailand, Laos, Burma; dogs; birdsong, sounds of nature. 20th century lived in UK, France, Algeria, Colombia, Malaysia. Hope one day to understand something
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'never,' BBC?
July 24, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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Perfect
July 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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also enjoyed by the Thai comentator
July 2, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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Trying to rescue some old 35mm slides and came across this I took in Malaysia in 1982. Google says Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus.) Not a frogger so I won't dispute this. #frogs
July 2, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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Two from this morning's walk. Cyclosia papilionaris and Junonia orithya. #moths #butterflies
black-winged moth with white markings and shiny blue antennae on green leaf medium sized butterfly with open wings resting on sandy ground. Upper wings dark brown with white stripe; hindwings deep blue; two ring patterns on each wing
June 22, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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Some more bugs seen this morning. Spittlebugs, Callitettix versicolor? (I'm intrigued by the variation in pattern and colouration); mating pair of Amata sperbius; a Lamiinae
beetle and a damp Aloa lactinea (red costate tiger moth.) #moths #insects #nature
four black bugs with a variety of red and white spots. All on green leaves or blades of grass, some with raindrops conjoined moths with black bodies and yellow band, hyaline wings; resting on a blade of grass a black and yellow beetle with long antennae on a green leaf side view of a white moth with red wing edge, covered on spots of moisture clinging to a blade of grass
June 19, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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Cricket courtship from my walk this morning. Probably not the first attempt. I withdrew discretely for them to consummate the act in private. #insects #nature
June 16, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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bug on windscreen yesterday
June 16, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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Overnight rains bring out the moths. Some seen on my morning walks the last few days. 4 posted 2 days ago; 3 from this morning. All pretty common. Macrobrochis gigas, Achaea janata (Erebidae) and Chiasmia Eleonora or nora (Ennominae.) #moths #insects
Top left clockwise: underside of a tiny moth with dark and light brown markings resting on a blade of grass; tiny dark brown moth (Spoladea recurvalis) with a white band on wings resting under a blade of grass; tiny white moth with grey marking resting on a fern- Google thinks Cyclidia pitmani (Drepanidae), I'm not sure; tiny white moth with light brown markings resting on a blade of grass (Parapoynx diminutalis, Crambidae) moth with black wings with long white stripes resting on sand; wings a bit worn with with brown upper wings with darker and lighter brown markings; hindwings dark brown with white band and white squares near the edge; resting on concrete small moth with varying shades of brown and a white band on wings; resting on green leaves
June 15, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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Always a pleasure to find these tiny moths in the grass after overnight rain. I took advantage of my dogs going off to do dog things to take a few snaps. The brown one is Spoladea recurvalis, not sure about the others. #moths #teammoth
underside of a tiny moth with dark and light brown markings resting on a blade of grass tiny dark brown moth with a white band on wings resting under a blade of grass tiny white moth with grey marking resting on a fern tiny white moth with light brown markings resting on a blade of grass
June 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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"UK Newspapers Archive's" text grabber's verdict on the discourse of politicians.
June 13, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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Overnight rain brings out the bugs. These from my dog walk this morning. Callitettix versicolor (Black Froghopper,) a charming Hemithyrsocera palliata, Golden Ring Cockroach, Lesser Dart (Potanthus omaha) and terrible pic but I'm guessing assassin bugs, nymphs? #insects #entomology #nature
black bug with a series of red spots and another of white spots on a blade of grass with raindrops a small black cockroach with a yellow band on a blade of grass covered in raindrops tiny brown butterfly, wings closed, black markings on a blade of grass covered in raindrops two orange and black bugs with long thin antennae and legs on a blade of grass covered in raindrops
June 12, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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Butterflies on a rainy morning. Common Pierrot (Castalius rosimon), Common Leopard (Phalanta phalantha), aka the Spotted Rustic, and Junonia orithya (Blue Pansy), female. Spotted while out walking with my dogs. #butterflies
small white butterfly with black spots and lines on leaves covered in rain drops brown butterfly with black markings on leaves dotted with raindrops butterfly with black and dark blue wings dotted with orange and black circles resting on leaves covered in raindrops
June 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Several moths in the grasses on my dog walk this morning. Mostly what I assume to be the Crimson-speckled moth (Utetheisa pulchella) in various states of repair. #moths #teammoth
Very small moth on green leaves- wings are narrow, white with a variable pattern of numerous small black spots located between the larger-sized dull red spots. Bottom edge with black spots. Very small moth on green leaves- wings are narrow, white with a variable pattern of numerous small black spots located between the larger-sized dull red spots. Bottom edge with black spots. Very small moth on green leaves- wings are narrow, white with a variable pattern of numerous small black spots located between the larger-sized bright red spots. Bottomedge with black spots. Colours bright Very small moth under green leaves- wings are narrow, white with a variable pattern of numerous small black spots located between the larger-sized faded red/yellow spots. Bottom edge with black spots.
June 4, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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".......never vanquished be until Burnham to Downing Street Shall come against him." "Damn those witches." (image by ChatGPT)
in the foreground, the back of a man with swept back hair and glasses; looking at the apparition of a child wearing a crown and holding a sapling
May 16, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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A nice Tuftwing moth on the track I walk with my dogs this morning. Pterothysanus laticilia, old world butterfly moth. You can just about see the tufts on the wings. Plus an earlier sighting and a mating pair. Quite common around here in the rainy season.
#moths #teammoth
moth with wings open on a muddy path; wings white with dark grey and black markings, red spots round the wing tips the same species as in the first image on a stony track a conjoined pair of the same species mating on green vegetation
May 12, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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A nice Tuftwing moth on the track I walk with my dogs this morning. Pterothysanus laticilia, old world butterfly moth. You can just about see the tufts on the wings. Plus an earlier sighting and a mating pair. Quite common around here in the rainy season.
moth with wings open on a muddy path; wings white with dark grey and black markings, red spots round the wing tips the same species as in the first image on a stony track a conjoined pair of the same species mating on green vegetation
May 12, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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"Так точно, товарищ Путин, но мне всё время подсовывают черствый хлеб, я больше не могу это терпеть."
A duck standing on the bank opposite the MI6 headquarters
May 11, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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A very friendly tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) has moved in with me this evening.
full view of large gecko with blue-gray body with red spots and speckles head and upper body of the same gecko closeup of head and body of same gecko
May 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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A colourful caterpillar this morning that will one day be Papilio clytia. Too bad evolution didn't treat humans as the larval stage of something more beautiful and less harmful.
a bright yellow caterpillar with black markings and red spots on a leaf it has chewed half of a black and white butterfly with wings open on a green leaf a black and white butterfly feeding, wings underside shown with ochre markings along the edge of the lower wing
April 23, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Good to see this Junonia orithya on a turbulent walk with the dogs this morning
April 14, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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Thank you for the penpersonship, ChatGTP. Idea such as it is, mine.
April 11, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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Very nice find. We have some seriously hairy moths in Chiang Mai- not just legs. If ever there was a "Hirsute moth" contest, I would put my money on Cheromettia apicata (one that came to my lights a few years ago)
April 9, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Visitor to the house last night. Daphnis hypothous, Jade hawkmoth (I think, I can never tell it from D. nerii.)
It spent the night in the kitchen but I persuaded it to leave in the morning.
The third image is Daphnis nerii, I think #moths
Dark brown hawkmoth with lighter markings resting on a white curtain Dark olive green hawkmoth with grey and pale blue markings resting on some rough wood Dark green hawkmoth with pink and white markings resting on a light grey surface
July 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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“I know not how it falls on me,
This summer evening, hushed and lone;
Yet the faint wind comes soothingly
With something of an olden tone”
Emily Brontë
Three shots from an evening walk in the woods
📷 mine
#nature #photography
a single stalk, dark trees, a pale orange sky with a golden sun to the right. some dry stalk on the left, bamboo leaves on the right all silhouetted against a golden sky. The sun is seen behind the leaves. stalks with a cluster of seeds with fluffy ends silhouetted against a golden sky
April 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM