Coniopterygidae (Dusty-winged Lacewings)
This is the description of the Family Coniopterygidae in the online guide to the Neuroptera (lacewings and antlions) of southern Africa •Comprising 7 genera and...
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Online guide to the Neuroptera (lacewings and antlions) of southern Africa
There are 13 families in southern Africa. Here are the first seven. Coniopterygidae (Dusty-winged Lacewings) Hemerobiidae (Brown Lacewings) Chrysopidae (Green L...
Ascalaphidae (Owlflies)
This is the description of the Family Ascalaphidae in the online guide to the Neuroptera (lacewings and antlions) of southern Africa Eight genera are known from...
Feeders and feathers and fear-scapes…oh my!
Just two weeks ago, armed with my backpack, camera, and a box of well-loved field guides, I bade farewell to my beloved flat in Cape Town and opened the door to...
BDInsight – March 2021
March has marched right past! And we are heading into the Easter holidays. We wish you all a wonderful Easter Weekend full of BioMAPping adventures! Read on for...
BirdPix on a run in 2021
BirdPix is important because it is going to be used to test whether “species distribution models” can be used to generate maps that look like the bi...
How do you refresh a butterfly? You LepiMAP it in 2021!
The take home message of this blog is one of disappointment! But the reality is that we have never looked at the butterflies in LepiMAP in this way before. Beca...
BDInsight – January 2021
The first month of the new year is already behind us! For January 2021 BioMAPpers managed to snap and map almost 10,000 records on biodiversity. Amazingly well ...
Starting from scratch : OdonataMAP in 2021
We lost all the data***. Now we need to be starting from scratch! This is not such a crazy idea. It is so easy to think. I know that the Red-veined Dropwing has...
Progress with BirdPix in the Free State during 2020
We will slowly work out way through projects and provinces! We have done BirdPix in the Western Cape. This map shows the number of bird species recorded for Bir...