Wednesday 5 June 2013

The Shar Pei of insects

My very observant little girl attracted my attention to this insect this morning, during our dawn walk to take comparative pictures of baobab trees for friends in Senegal and in Cambodia.


Don't you think it's as deliciously ugly as a Shar Pei?


Nature baffles me, most of the time. It does more and better than mankind, every time. (The insect is most likely not genetically engineered, and it's red. Two plusses this modern man-selected (man-made) dog "breed" can't claim.)

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