Cyrenization

Hey ya'll Mondays are generally a downer in most people's weekly routine but there are ways of coping with the dreaded Monday Blues. For me, nothing will beats surfing the interwebs and finding a visual goldmine such as this. Now this may look like a fairly unassuming hole in the ground, picturesque maybe but hardly anything to shout about... Until the photographer zooms in to reveal this... ...and this ...and THIS!!! The images above, that seem to be a vision straight out of any naturalist's dreams or chiroptophobe's nightmares is a one of a kind phenomenon that is only observable at the Monfort Bat Sanctuary on Samal Island, Philippin

The following is an excerpt from my field diary. Day 2 12.1.2014 There were so many things that I wanted to talk to the people about and so many things I wanted to do, but it was hard in the early stages to insert myself into daily situations in such an intrusive manner and so there were some mornings - when families were going about their more intimate of household chores - that I would have literally nothing to do and would thus be relatively free to wander around and entertain my own curiosities. I sat that morning, in the common eating area underneath a beautiful trellis made of very large vines. The vines, which had leaves as big as my

My very first set of Ornithoptera, all flexed and ready to spread!!! Thank you InsectDesigns for the specimens and as always thanks for supporting my art and my work! Ornithoptera priamus poseidon, male Ornithoptera rothschildi, male Aren't they magnificent?! I just can't tell you how nervous I was picking them out of their chambers! One wrong move and it could make all the difference between an A1 specimen and a tear that's going to kill me for the rest of my life (birdwings don't fall out of the sky!!!). One thing to note though, relaxing chambers don't actually work for Ornithoptera. Not when they've (apparently) been dead for over two