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Location Rex Hotel lakes, Point Salines, Nr Magazin Beach, Grenada, March 2010This is a very clever bird with its fishing technique in these hotel lakes. Rather than the usual heron technique comprising of a quick snap of the neck to catch the fish, this Green Heron was using a small peice of bread as fish bate. The Green Heron would place the piece of bread close to the edge of the water, just within reach and wait for a fish to come along, then it would strike, often catching more and bigger fish than the other local little blue and great blue herons.
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Cradley, Malvern, Worcs. SO729847
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Pambula, New South Wales, Australia
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Letaba Night Drive, Kruger NP, SOUTH AFRICA
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Lancaster, Massachusetts
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Virginia, United States
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Kasawari, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Cradley, Malvern, Worcs. SO729470 Macro list :Barred Red. Hylaea fasciaria .....1Dingy Footman ....2Common Footman....17Common Carpet...1Dark Arches.....1Dusky Thorn....1Herald.....1Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow underwing.....1Marbled Beauty.....1Phoenix...1Purple Thorn ...1Early Thorn...2Red Twin-spot Carpet...1Riband Wave.....4Common White Wave...1Rosy Footman....3Rustic...1Scalloped Oak.....3Small Dusty Wave.....1Small Fan-footed Wave....3Shaded Broad-bar ........1Small Rivulet.....1Smoky Wainscot...2Tawny-barred Angle....1White Satin Moth....1Willow Beauty...4Brimstone...2Yellow-tail.....2Beautiful Hook-tip...1Snout...1Heart & Dart ...4Scarlet Tiger...1Clouded Border...1Lesser Cream Wave...1Uncertain...2
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Mokala NP, Northern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA
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Clydesdale, Victoria, Australia
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Olvera, Cadiz Province, Andalucia
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Singapore, South East, Singapore
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Florida, United States
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Le Pra, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
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Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Olifants, Limpopo, South Africa
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Prachin Buri, Thailand
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Thanks to the team and users of
www.diptera.info for this first identification.Order=diptera Family=phoridae Genus=(Microselia OR Pseudacteon), hard to go further because I haven't got photos with good resolution.This is a plastic cap filled with water and sugar.I used this system to concentrate many workers of C.vagus so to attract the small fly that you can see in the middle of the cap.The critter is a Diptera of the Phoridae family, also known as "ant-decapitating fly".It is attracted by large number of busy workers and after following one for a while it perches on the abdomen (it normally prefers the lower side) and then lays its egg(s).The reaction of the worker is to go mad and try to remove it with the legs or the jaws. The closest workers get normally alarmed by this behaviour.I've noticed that the colonies heavily affected by this fly are affected by the CBPV "Chronic bee paralysis virus" as well, but I don't know if there are relations since the CBPV is known to be carried by mites (anyway I've never spotted mites on a C.vagus).When a colony is infected there are many dead workers around the nest, they lay in a unusual posture and if touched they easily lose the head.Tuscany, Italy
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Berg-en-Dal, Mpumalanga, South Africa