John B.

Hi Mark, thank you very much for your comment. It is, indeed "interesting" to see a member of the tribe Alticini with feathered antennae, but (as I am sure you know) there are a few. Some of them can be viewed in https://uk.inaturalist.org/taxa/622582-P........ but your comment made me look at my spotting again and I am now a little comcerned that it might not be Alticini. I think I was influenced too much by the fact that this beetle is very small and very iridescent. The rear leg thighs don't look right. So, I will have to check some more and try to get it right. I don't want to change the ID just yet for fear of making it worse, but I will fix it as soon as I can. Thanks again for bringing it to my attention.

Hi Ingrid3, thank you for your comment.

Thanks, Arne, I think you are right. It does look like the one shown by Leana Lahom-Cristobal.

Hi thebushwatch, this is a very nice first spotting on Project Noah. Well done! I would just like to point out that the Species ID Suggestion facility is for other people to use, if they notice that you need help with identification of your spotting. It should not be used to send a suggestion to yourself. So, in order to make your spotting page correct, please delete the suggestion. To do this, just hover over the Suggestion with your mouse cursor until you see the red "X" appearing in the bottom right corner and then click on the "X". It is also important to click and hold on the pointer in the map and drag it to the place (on the map or the satellite view) where you saw the bird. Next, please just go to the bottom of your page and click on "Publish Spotting" and that's it done. It's not a problem, so don't worry. We all had to learn these things when we joined Project Noah. I hope to see some more spottings from South Africa. Welcome to Project Noah.

Hi Tom, I found the answer regarding the "egg sacs" of Lynx Spiders - the University of Florida paper exlains it in https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/MIS...)... but now I have another problem. The UF|IFAS paper states that the Lynx makes its egg sac on the underside of a leaf (and show a photo), but I am pretty sure that all of my spottings show the egg sac on the upper surface of the leaf. Maybe this is a regional behavioural difference. After all, the Florida spiders and the Philippine spiders are on opposite sides of the world :-)

Hi Tom, nice to hear from you and, as always, your comment made me think some more about my spotting. I don't really know if the spider carried all that stuff up from the ground. It was just a guess and maybe not a very good one, but that doesn't matter too much. For me, the most important part of your comment was the fact that you used the term "egg sac" which I had mentioned in my Description three times and in my Habitat once. It was only when I saw your comment that I realized..... I don't know if that is the right way to describe the way that a Lynx Spider "contains" its eggs. I know (because I have seen it being done} that a Lynx lays its eggs directly onto the surface of a leaf and then covers them with a thick blanket of silk. On completion of this work, it stands guard over its eggs, until it dies of starvation. I don't know if this creation is properly called an "Egg Sac". I will try to find out. Thanks, Tom..

A great first spotting and very good photo. Well done.

Hi arc (Andy), I think you are absolutely right and you can now update your spotting to show the Common and Scientific names. I apologise for not getting it correct in my ID suggestion. The later photo, that you added, does make the ID a bit easier, but now that I have looked again, I can see some other little details that I missed. So, it worked out, in the end and that's all that matters. Well done! Now, if you would like me to cancel my wrong ID suggestion, to make your page "tidy", I will do that - no problem, but it might serve a better purpose to leave it there. If others look at your dragonfly, while trying to identify one of their own spottings, they will see how easy it is to go wrong by overlooking small small interspecific differences and that might help to prevent them from making the same kind of mistake. I will just leave my ID suggestion, unless you want me to remove it. I look forward to seeing more great spottings from the Davao Region and if I notice that you are struggling, I will try to help.

Hi arc, That is a very beautiful picture. I think your dragonfly is a male Scarlet Basker - Urothemis signata. I will send you a Species ID Suggestion so that you can take a look and see what you think.

Great spotting Arne. Your Moth is just exquisite!