Scorpion - Uroplectes triangulifer

Family Buthidae  - Uroplectes triangulifer

This species lives under rocks and is about 5cm in length.

Stick Insect

Family Phasmatodea - Bacillidae 

 Can anyone give me an idea of what is going on here? Stick Insects normally have 6 legs but this one has 4 and it looks like this baby one is eating its own leg????

Caterpillar pupa moth - Geometridae

Probably Geometridae - Emerald Moth species

Mushrooms

A selection of mushrooms found on my recent travels. 

 Please do not pick and eat wild mushrooms. They can make you very sick!!

Lion cub

"How boring to be a two year old male lion cub!"

 Yawn .......

 "I think I will go and lay in the elephant dung for a change of pace!"

Mountain Sandman (Spialia spio)

Family Hesperiidae - Skipper

Spittal bug

Spittal bugs surround themselves with a ball of foam attached to grass to hide in from predators.

Shelduck Duck

Family Anseriformes Anatidae

My first sigting of this species seen in Mountain Zebra National Park.