Found this guy hanging around the kitchen the other night.

I am not sure what you call them.......so I call him Harold

Tokay lizard - really nice. Kon Thai seem to fear them. They can bite a bit if you pick them up wrongly but they are a great animal.

Harold is very photogenic. We have many and I found a smaller one today hiding in one of my running shoe that I leave on the rack outside.

@ Mousehound.......Thanks for making me wiser

Tokay Harold sounds a lot more dignified

@ villagefalang.....Handsome brute isn't he,unfortunately Mrs Shaggy doesn't have quite the same opinion as me though.

After taking one short glimpse of my new friend she ran out of the kitchen screaming I don't like that.....make it go away at rather a high pitch

I stumbled across this little chap whilst out foraging for mushrooms in the mountain.

I think I must of touched it with my foraging cane and that is why it went into it's defensive ball.

Also funny to see the two hitchhikers he was carrying as well.

@ Mousehound.......Thanks for making me wiser

Tokay Harold sounds a lot more dignified

@ villagefalang.....Handsome brute isn't he,unfortunately Mrs Shaggy doesn't have quite the same opinion as me though.

After taking one short glimpse of my new friend she ran out of the kitchen screaming I don't like that.....make it go away at rather a high pitch

I stumbled across this little chap whilst out foraging for mushrooms in the mountain.

I think I must of touched it with my foraging cane and that is why it went into it's defensive ball.

Also funny to see the two hitchhikers he was carrying as well.

reminds me of the old saying.... 'big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, and little fleas have littler fleas and so ad infinitum...'

These red mites are common on spiders as well.

Look both ways before you cross the road.

Ants working flat out at building a home.

This ant is looking at me...

An agressive posture

A pretty visitor looking for sunflower seeds

This is a strange one. Anyone know its ID?

OK I have this one...really tiny butterflies. ID please someone?

That's my index finger there for scale.

Found them while out fishing.

OK I have this one...really tiny butterflies. ID please someone?

That's my index finger there for scale.

Found them while out fishing.

The Straight Pierrot - หนอนพุทราแถบตรง - Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae: Caleta roxus pothus

And three more 'cousins':

Three cousins

An unusual meeting of three different Pierrots (Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae):
1st: The Banded Blue Pierrot - Discolampa ethion ethion
2nd: The Common Pierrot - Castalius Rosimon Rosimon
3rd: The Elbowed Pierrot - Caleta edna noliteia

Thanks Anguid your shots are awesome.

Did you sit the camera on the ground for that one at post #587? Great DoF!

These little guys have no fear. I can lightly touch them before they take flight.

Gotta go get me a butterfly book for Thailand now. Any you recommend?

Over the last 2 months or so, there were thousands of butterflies of all kinds around my fishing spots but seem to be tapering off now.

Here's one of a bug-eyed chevrotain taken from a hide at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Chaiyaphum.

Thanks Anguid your shots are awesome.

Did you sit the camera on the ground for that one at post #587? Great DoF!

These little guys have no fear. I can lightly touch them before they take flight.

Gotta go get me a butterfly book for Thailand now. Any you recommend?

Over the last 2 months or so, there were thousands of butterflies of all kinds around my fishing spots but seem to be tapering off now.

This is a great book, it's in English, just printed the new edition.

You can find at Asia books, good choice bookshops or you can order directly from the author Khun Pisuth:

http://www.malaeng.com/blog/?p=14857h

Thanks Anguid. I'll look out for this one.

eggs of the cherry snail

Introduced into Thailand by someone who thought the rural people would eat them..... not.... they eat the rice crop instead...

Here seen on a lotus stalk.

eggs of the cherry snail

Introduced into Thailand by someone who thought the rural people would eat them..... not.... they eat the rice crop instead...

Here seen on a lotus stalk.

yes, these eggs produce snails that are the surge of the rice farmers...

Some where I have pics of the damage they do, but cannot find at the moment!

You seem to see them everywhere... even my pond gets the blessed blighters!

Shades of cane toads in OZ.

Local nature can look after its self without intervention from worlds greatest destroyer man.

high up a tree in the grounds of Wat Hariphunchai...

Blue-crested Lizard - Lamphun

Pai, natural hotsprings..

I can't remember if I posted this or not. I expected this frog to duck under water but he waited long enough to photo

Anyone got any ideas what sort of butterfly this is?

This black butterfly would land on a long stem of grass, run along to the other end then fly off.

I have never seen a butterfly do that before, when the alight they don't usually move till they fly off.

There were several of these in the one place, don't recall seeing them anywhere else.

Anyone got any ideas what sort of butterfly this is?

Looks like a Common Birdwing from memory when I used to collect butterflies as a kid.

another flutterby....

Yellow Coster - Doi Pui

Anyone got any ideas what sort of butterfly this is?

Looks like a Common Birdwing from memory when I used to collect butterflies as a kid.

It doesn't look that common to me.

on the sandy banks of a muddy river....

Eurema sp? - Ob Khan National Park

Anyone got any ideas what sort of butterfly this is?

It's called Common Birdwing (Troides helena) and is a female (different pattern from the male)