Anyone familiar with the freshwater fish fauna of the Philippines surely would have noticed that the dominant group is comprised…
Apart from phasmids, perhaps one of the more underrepresented of the local invertebrate subcultures is that dealing with millipedes, an…
I can’t remember the exact date, but that should be sometime mid-January, 2000. About two months previously, I acquired a…
Let us be honest, not a lot of people appreciate having moths nearby. They congregate around lampposts and light bulbs…
In common with other orthomerias, the coloration of O. pandora is striking. The base color of males of this stick…
The Philippines is home to five known species of pit vipers* distributed rather evenly across the archipelago, particularly in high…
People, particularly kids, who are uneasy of the dark are often told, “There is nothing in the dark that isn’t…
The 1090-meter tall Mt. Makiling in the province of Laguna is where one finds the nearest dipterocarp forest from the…
Very few species from the theraphosid family of spiders — the ones colloquially called “tarantulas” — were identified as having…
Humans have always been fascinated by the creatures they share the world with, and those that are potentially lethal to…