We first saw them near mangroves at Pomene. They’re really funny and look like they’re walking backwards. They live in perfect cone holes, ants fall in and can’t get out and get eaten by the ant lion.
Millipedes. Curl up when you touch them. They squirt poo on you at the beginning when you handle them. Some say the poo is poisonous.
Quite beautifully camouflaged on a rainy leaf.
Huge horn on front. Looks weird.
Rescued from grandparents’ swimming pool
Dung Beetles lay their eggs in dung. They roll the dung along the ground. They then bury the dung ball. When the larvae hatch, they eat the dung as nutrition for a few weeks.
Quick as a wink, but slower than a flying Tupperware.
Bea is quick at catching crickets. (Try saying it fast, again and again…!)
Compound eyes. Eats living plants. Female lays eggs in soil in egg case using her ovipositor (which is at the end of her abdomen). Babies hatch 1 month later. Locusts are a kind of grasshopper.