Pai

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It's gorgeous are beautiful in the early morning's.

Oh you did get there.... It's very nice at sunset too..... Glad you followed my advice on places to go in Pai!

I just tried to find some of my images of Pai, but they seem to have disappeared!

Asiatic Softshell turtle, amyda cartilaginea.

CITES status vulnerable.

First one of these I have seen.

Unfortunately in some countries they are still hunted for food,

Although they are not actively hunted here in Thailand if one is caught it will appear for sale in a market.

Aint I a pretty boy?

Well they say beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Scorpion sting

Systella dusmeti - Effective camouflage

The Straight Pierrot - หนอนพุทราแถบตรง - Peeing

The Common Red Harlequin - สีชาดจุดขาวธรรมดา - A beautiful forest dweller

Don't know what I should call this one.

Don't know what I should call this one.

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symbiosis .... or do you like my new hat.

Don't know what I should call this one.

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symbiosis .... or do you like my new hat.

A "Myna" irritation?

feel free anyone to name this particular species... ..(Bill, George, Sue & the like not accepted.. )

Grasshopper - Doi Pui summit

Its a Hopidopptera as opposed to a Lepidoptera same as this one.

Well that's what we used to call them anyway

feel free anyone to name this particular species... ..(Bill, George, Sue & the like not accepted.. )

Grasshopper - Doi Pui summit

I't called Monkey Grasshopper (Orthoptera Chorotypidae sp.)

^ cheers angiud... after posting i did a bit more research and Monkey Grasshopper is what i came up with too.

here's another....

at Doi Pui summit

Colorful frogs

Not nearly up to you fellas standard of taking pictures of these little things but I will keep trying.

A little green thing that flew across in front of me

Grasshoppers again - male & female of the same species...?

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at the summit of Doi Pui, Chiang Mai (1,685 m)

A little orange dragonfly that came and sat on a rock when I was down by the river fishing.

Interesting to see the orange shadow on the rock from the wing.

a Lucanidae species... possibly 'Prosopocoilus astacoides' ...

Stag Beetle - Doi Pui, Chiang Mai

A hitch hiker on the leg of my pants.

Another nice visitor today in our garden..

Another nice visitor today in our garden..

Nice little Vine Snake. Low level venom. hatches live young and swells and flattens body to show black and pale scale patterning when threatened. Looks like a totally different snake when in defensive threat mode.

Another nice visitor today in our garden..

Nice little Vine Snake. Low level venom. hatches live young and swells and flattens body to show black and pale scale patterning when threatened. Looks like a totally different snake when in defensive threat mode.

Here's another (better?) pic of the same snake, just for the fun of it.

Can you see him (or her!!) ?

Opps somehow got a double post above!

Light through a fern leaf! Was not sure where to put this!

Can butterflies get knotted or are these Siamese twins?

Saw them fly past together and got this shot when they landed.

They took off again and had no problem flying together.

I think a bit of hanky pankie going on there Robby!

This sucker was having a good chew on a lime bush! ... he sure smell bad too!

an unknown day flying moth species... probably of the family Zygaenidae

Doi Pui, Chiang Mai

Something else I don't know the name of.

I call it puncture weed.

A ground hugging little creeper with sharp seeds that I am forever picking out of my bike tires and fixing the resulting punctures.

The seeds.

If I stayed on the roads there would be no problem but there are so many interesting things down the little sidetracks

Not sure if this should be in nature or toilets.

Even butterflies do it.

Seen these little fellas running around on the ground a couple of times but until this morning never been able to get a photo.

My little 10yr old Thai mate tells me they are not a squirrel and the Thai name is Pang Phon.

Had a hunt around and it would seem he is right they are in fact a Siberian Chipmunk, scientifically known as Tamias sibiricus.

Not sure if this the right place for this, but dead coral, washed up on BanTai beach Samui....

This little fellow have been a week in my toilet. His duty is to keep the toilet clean of creepy crawlers.

My task is to domesticate it.

A pretty visitor looking for sunflower seeds