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Looks the same to me !!

Yes Extremely difficult to remove. My mum has been trying to remove these from her garden since I was in primary school, to no avail. They creep all over the place!

ok...me to ... PLEASE

Sorry MWP.. I'm lost here!

Cuttings no as far as I know but endemic plants yes, including Widnet in Bahar, Cremnophyton and others. Ive been recently and their nursery was quite extensive

Tnx wolf

Wow great MWP. Thats a new one for me. Wolf.. can I use the pic for educational purposes as I am trying to set up ID sheets for the Chadwick lakes fauna to be used for fieldwork at Chwdwick lakes and I dont have any photos of this organism. Does any one know if someone has done a key of any of the l...

Apparently there are two local diving beetle species listed.. or so I found. The Large predacious dving beetle Dytiscus circumflexus and the black predacious diving beetle Meladema coriacea . The former has a yellow stripe around the edge of its body. I havent found many images on the web. http://ww...

Great find so it was not an amphibian or reptile after all, my first guess was closer. I'll post my unidentified chadwick lakes pics here when I do fieldwork with the kids :D I have observed diving beetle larvae and they are quite big and yes quite aggressive. I have infact encountered a mature one ...

Yes obviously in the wild! although with all these introduced "pets" you don't know anymore. They are disposed of anywhere. Akthough it may sound cruel, unless kept in captivity, it is better to kill them rather than release into the wild and create havoc of our ecosystems should the animal survive....

That's a weird creature. As far as I know the painted frog is the only amphibian on the islands. The body looks segmented from the photo maybe it is some form of arthropod larval stage. Maybe you might email it to someone for exact identification. More studies needed on valley bottoms.

Nothing to do with plant biodiversity. It is a workbook for biology form 3 students. Ive had a form 4 version ready since ages and have done already 2 trials with students printing some 150 copies and then selling them to students to get back my costs (they did sell fast though!). I'm a bit wary of ...

I like your sense of humour Jackpot :lol: To get back on the book.. yes.. unfortunately local publishers will never tell you how much they actually sell.. at least thats what happened in my case... through contacts I had a rough idea which was absolutely not what the publisher told me :x I have no i...

Well I guess we should ask Mr Weber to tell us how many copies of his new book he sells..that should give us an idea!

I had done the cuttings during the winter time and kept them in my lab..this was some time ago so I dont remember exactly when, as we have a gardener at school who actually split the large cuttings into smaller ones for me. I also placed the ends in rooting powder as MWP said and placed them in soil...

Never tried seeds but ive managed with small cuttings.

I'm attaching another photo of Persicaria salicifolia taken at Bahrija in June 2004.

I just bought a copy of the book today. Well done! it will surely be put to good use.

However you can buy some local species at nurseries. The Gaia foundation has a nursery and has numerous endemic species for sale.

Can you let me know where you took this photo. tx

could be Lythrum junceum

Oh dear! They never go hungry I guess. I've heard they eat all sorts of things and their natural remedies include a variety of species some of which are endangered. Im not sure if its the chinese but somewhere they even dessicate sea horses and grate them as some cure. Poor things! I never even got ...

It is a type of Echinoderm called a sea cucumber. They are harmless creatures. This specimen might be a white spot cucumber .. Holothuria polii . and lives at a depth between 1-30m. Usually common on sandy bottoms. As far as I know no protection status. I never thought of them as a culinary delicacy...

There's always a first time! Many volunteers are actually non divers. We also do snorkelling surveys and coastal terrestrial surveys which involve a lot of data collection. Some like myself are biologists and hold a diving qualification but many are just nature lovers.

Bicref will be holding two seminars during july. I'm posting some information for those of you who may be interested. I shall be there on the 15th giving a talk entitled ' Methods to study marine and terrestrial biodiversity - survey techniques adopted by BICREF' While our coastal waters are crowded...

We have started doing fieldwork in Chadwick lakes these last two years. We work on small vertebrates and invertebrates in the water course, but no plants. Usually we go during the 1st week of March. However should you need I am ready to help. No I do not work with Gaia, I am a volunteer with BICREF ...

Yes.. you definitely cannot miss them. Very easy to spot. Just take care you dont get run over! It isnt the best place to take photos.

Thanks jackpot. Then I learnt something new. I know the feelings, students can give you a tough time. I had to co-ordinate datacollection from some 110 students this year with the help of other teachers. Yours are older though which helps. Maybe i should come over to Germany to do some fieldwork wit...

Unfortunately I took this photo on the rush as It wasduring a fieldwork session so I was zooming arond identifying plants all over the place. The date was 29th March (Day of the eclipse) I'm attaching a larger version of the photo so it looks clearer. Isnt A. urvilleana less conical? If any of you t...

Is this a white form of the Anacamptis pyramidalis? Photo was taken in the area between the two temples of Hagar Qim and Mnajdra. First time seen it white. Loads of orchids there this year