A friend spent five years there recently, as part of a Darwin project, trying to undo three centuries of human abuse of the island. Mainly removing flax plantations and recreating natural biomes on the hills. I wanted to visit her but the cost (and potential unpleasantness) of the journey was rather offputting.
> On 07 June 2020 at 08:12 [email protected] wrote: > > > Mike- at the last count I think there were over 500 endemic and unique > species living in the island. Some have only been observed a couple of > times in the last 150 years, but recent sightings confirm their survival. > The planting of the Millennium Forest in 2000 has given many of them a > better chance to continue to survive. > > > John in Brisbane > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of mike wilson > Sent: Sunday, 7 June 2020 3:32 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: PESO: robber fly > > > > On 07 June 2020 at 01:13 [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > Great shot Henk - I believe I would have called that a dragonfly! > > On the Island of St. Helena, I once watched a brilliant green wasp killing > a > > cockroach: never saw it again and did not have a camera on me at the time! > > St Helena has an exceptional biological diversity. Even so, to find a > cuckoo wasp, which requires an extremely specific microhabitat to survive > plus (being parasitoid) specific organisms to host their young, on an island > in the middle of nowhere, is pretty special. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
