Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

[Richprins]

Another moth?

It prefers to hang upside down!

About 2cm - Nelspruit

[Klipspringer]

Antigastra catalaunalis
Red Veined Pearl or Sesame Leaf-roller
The caterpillars make shelter by rolling up young leaves and webbing them together with silk.
A pest of sesame crop, Sesamum indicum.

Very elegant moth O like the large eyes

Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Spilomelinae

Crambrid snout moths have a characteristic triangular shape, with the wings usually folded over the abdomen, the forewings covering the hindwings.

[Richprins]

Klippies!

[Richprins]

A big bug - 3cm.

Nelspruit

[Lisbeth]

A kind of stink bug?

[Klipspringer]

A kind of stink bug?

a member of the family Pentatomidae, generally called shield bugs or stink bugs.

Lisbeth will take over here now

Brown Shield Bug Basicryptus costalis - this species has been transferred from the genus Dalsira to the genus Basicryptus.
Uniformly ochre, with 2 thin cream stripes on the margins of the hemelytra and a black spot below each side projection of the thorax.
The forewings of stink bugs are called hemelytra, with the basal half thickened while the apex is membranous. At rest, the wings are laid across the back of the insect, with the membranous wingtips overlapping. The hindwings are entirely membranous.

They are predatory stinkbugs and prey on fat caterpillars. Good to have them around in your garden to control some hungry pest caterpillars.

[Lisbeth]

A kind of stink bug?

Lisbeth will take over here now

[Richprins]

Klippies!

[Richprins]

A HUGE mantis, 8cm.

Nelspruit.

(Pretty sure it was dead!)

[nan]

wow nice one
it's seems I got one at Punda Maria
same specie