Tagalog legend tells us that Bathala once summoned all snakes to partake in a jar full of venom so that they could arm their fangs with the toxic soup with whi... Read More...
Flying snakes. Serpents that climb trees and launch themselves to the sky to chase their prey - these are an ophidiophobe's nightmare. And while the name conju... Read More...
Four terrestrial elapid genera are from the Philippines, two of which are cobras (Naja and Ophiophagus) and two others from what has been loosely referred to a... Read More...
The genus Cyrtodactylus consists in the neighborhood of 250
species and stands out as the most species-rich in the entire Gekkonid family.
These geckos are imm... Read More...
I remember the time when our varanid fauna was understood to
be composed only of two species, Varanus
olivaceus and V. salvator, along
with three subspecies, V... Read More...
Mantids, some would argue, represent the highest pinnacle of
insect predatory body plan. With extremely good eyesight perched on a rotating
head and a pronotum... Read More...
Anyone familiar with the freshwater fish fauna of the
Philippines surely would have noticed that the dominant group is comprised of
the gobies, which is divide... Read More...
Apart from phasmids, perhaps one of the more
underrepresented of the local invertebrate subcultures is that dealing with millipedes,
an anomaly possibly attrib... Read More...
I can’t remember the exact date, but that should be sometime
mid-January, 2000. About two months previously, I acquired a blue-phase iguana
and while it made a... Read More...
Let us be honest, not a lot of people appreciate having moths
nearby. They congregate around lampposts and light bulbs and fly around your face
and smash thems... Read More...
Wally Suarez is a self-taught orchidologist who is involved in the description of about 20 new plant taxa, but his interest in animals stretch back to his pre-school years. He has a deep interest in herpetology and ecology, and frequently goes into forests and mountains to search and study not just reptiles and amphibians, but also fishes, crustaceans, arachnids, and a wide range of insects including butterflies and phasmids.
