Mike- at the last count I think there were over 500 endemic and unique species living in the island. Some have only been observed a couple of times in the last 150 years, but recent sightings confirm their survival. The planting of the Millennium Forest in 2000 has given many of them a better chance to continue to survive.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of mike wilson Sent: Sunday, 7 June 2020 3:32 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: RE: PESO: robber fly > On 07 June 2020 at 01:13 [email protected] wrote: > > > Great shot Henk - I believe I would have called that a dragonfly! > On the Island of St. Helena, I once watched a brilliant green wasp killing a > cockroach: never saw it again and did not have a camera on me at the time! St Helena has an exceptional biological diversity. Even so, to find a cuckoo wasp, which requires an extremely specific microhabitat to survive plus (being parasitoid) specific organisms to host their young, on an island in the middle of nowhere, is pretty special. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
