Animals & Insects

Moth - possibly Palpita sp.
The last three days including today was spent in the office with e-mails, spreadsheets etc, so nothing really interesting there.

What I've started doing to brighten up my day though is to spend an hour or so in the morning or late afternoon, photographing insects and/or other little creatures that make their appearance in and around the house. These pics I'm using to compile checklists of insects, reptiles, spiders etc. The most fruitful of this lot has been the moths with some interesting and sometimes weird looking moths making their appearance. (around 4,700 known species in Africa!!)

The butterflies are a bit harder but we'll eventually get there. To date I haven't been able to find existing checklists of various species for Rwanda but only lists of endemics of the Albertine Rift. Granted, that at least gives one a bit of a starting point to work from otherwise its compiling and collating from various sources and see what comes out.

In the meanwhile, Andy and I are making arrangements to go and visit some caves in Musanze and Kinigi tomorrow. Exciting prospect of exploration.