common yellow swallowtail
The swallowtail family of butterflies include the largest butterflies in the world. The common yellow swallowtail here is a widespread species, through Asia, Europe and North America. The image here is from the Island...
Tagged: tactics
skink mimicking a snake
In the recent articles we talked about tactics from the snakes, spiders, birds and others for survival, and for saving their offspring. In the picture below, you can see a skink (kind of lizards)...
captain’s wood snake
We discovered this snake from under the ground while digging, the same time when this species was being named. That is, it was not known that such a species existed, taxonomically. It was in...
spider X and st. andrew’s cross: death-feigning tactics
This is a common garden spider, but known by a lot of special names, one of them being the St. Andrew’s Cross spider. They are known so because they align their legs in the...
