this is an insect larvae thats orange with black rings round its body. comes out during rains in africa?
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Sounds like a butterfly caterpillar, or maybe a coleopteran larva. Could you provide a photograph, or a more detailed description?\nDoes it look at least similar to this:\nhttp://www.artcrawl.com/cgi-bin/artcrawl/ac.sla2?ai=4068*41290\nor this?\nhttp://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/coleoptera/curculionidae/0669.12cloverwlarva6in.jpg\nOr none of the above?\n\nI'll check back :-)
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The larvae eat a toxic plant that causes them to be toxic to predators.  They also roost communally.
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Drosera is an insect eating plant.\n It is also called sun-dew for the following reason.\n\n The open leaf of drosera has a number of tentacles/hair on its upper surface. They secrete liquid that glistens in the Sun light like dew drops and attracts insects. they are then captured and digested by digestive enzymes secreted by the same tentacles/ hair.
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"Winters in southern Africa extend from mid May to early August - by the experience of the northern hemisphere African winters are extremely mild.\n\nSeasons in Africa are not as distinct by contrast with what you'll encounter in Europe or North America. The further you move towards the tropics, the less defined the seasons are. Cape Town is probably the most extreme climate that you will encounter. It is however also unique in Africa because it has a Mediterranean weather system, unlike the rest of the continent.\n\nWildlife enthusiasts generally favour the dry season when temperatures are moderate to high. Game activities are generally limited by the availability of fresh grazing and browsing resources. Rains usually scatter browsers and their persistent predators; dry periods predictably concentrate animals around residual water sources. "
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water and any proximity of the water. in early stages, as larvae, they transform in water.
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It's probably the exudate of insects feeding on the oak leaves. Aphids feed on plant sap by inserting their piercing-sucking mouthparts into leaves and stems. The pressure in the plant's sap stream is enough to to force too much fluid into the insects stomachs. To avoid blowing up from too much sap, aphids have 2 "spigots" on their tail end. Excess sap is secreted out of these and drips below. This is a very common thing.\n\nThe secretion - called honeydew - is favored by ants who avidly collect it. Honeydew dripping on leaves tends to grow a black fungus known as sooty-mold. The drips that make it to your car will last as long as the aphids are active - and that depends on what species of aphid is living in your oak tree.
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They're larvae, or larval octopi, if you prefer.
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umbrella tree-\n\nThe African Corkwood Tree (Musanga cecropioides), also known as the Umbrella tree, is found in Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola and eastward to Uganda. It is typical in secondary forests..\n\nThis tree is also known as Parasolier, N'Govoge, Doe, Umbrella Tree, kombo-kombo, musanga, musanda and Govwi.\n\nif you are looking for umbrella plant the links are:-\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Plant\n\nanother piece of info is;-\n\nNative to Australia, New Guinea and Java, the Umbrella Tree, Schefflera actinophylla, is very common in South Florida and the warmer parts of Central Florida.  Schefflera is also seen indoors as a houseplant all over the world\n\nRated up to 40 feet, Umbrella Tree has large shiny medium green leaves held in groups of seven compound leaves.  Observers in New Guinea report seeing Schefflera growing epiphytic starting as much as 40 feet up in tall rainforest trees\n\nMature trees outdoors in full sun develop very showy flowers in the summer.   The Schefflera in the pic above is in the final red stage of bloom\n\nUnfortunately, this Schefflera is also on Florida's "Don't Plant" list of nuisance trees.  What many people don't realize is outdoors, Schefflera is a nuisance for three reasons:\n\nSchefflera seeds itself very easily causing Schefflera to grow where no one wants a large tree \nRoots are strong, aggressive and can take over much of the surrounding soil \nSchefflera sheds leaves constantly creating a littered appearance below \nIf you plant Schefflera, most any well drained soil will do.  After establishment, occasional water and occasional food are all that is required\n\nThere are numerous varieties of Dwarf Schefflera most often called Arborcola.  Called Miniature Umbrella Plant, Schefflera arborcola is native to Taiwan.  Arborcola can have all green leaves or variegated either green-yellow or green-white, depending on variety and sun or shade locations\n\nArborcola are Schefflera shrubs generally used in mass to fill bed space and provide contrast in colors and foliage.  This pic shows Arborcola used that way behind impatiens.   Arborcola is a slow growing plant, so it is easy to keep within bounds.   Pruned to create more branching, Arborcola is very nice with none of the negatives of its larger cousin\n\nSchefflera farinosa (variegated) is native to Malaya and Indonesia, has green-yellow leaves like Arborcola, but much larger in size.  Farinosa is an excellent plant far less seen but perhaps even more attractive than Arborcola\n\nSchefflera digitata is native to New Zealand, a shrub with a much thinner habit in green leaves that have points rather than rounded\n\nUmbrella tree indoors as a houseplant is easy to grow if kept warm, in good light and the soil fairly dry.  Just follow basic houseplant procedures to have a nice Schefflera indoors all year round
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Japanese Ant\n\nhttp://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/E/Taxo/F81104.html
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Flies...they lay their eggs on the fruit, thus it turns into maggots!
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Maggots are Fly larvae
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sounds to me like it might be clover mites.\n\nhttp://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef627.htm
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an African wilderness area
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In the UK we call it 'cuckoo spit' and it is really the home of the frog hopper larva, it makes the foam from sap it sucks from the plant. When it becomes an adult it is a red beetle.
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i think a moth or 3 weeks
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ya ,i have seen it in my farm house but i think its not so tough.i saw it few years before.acc to me it grows during rainy season ,slowly it loses moisture and become hard .initially it is light brownish -yellow ,later become dark.\ni think wat i ans is wat u asked.
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During the summer and autumn/fall, many fly species lay eggs in plants and things. The eggs hatch, and the larvae stay in the plant for the winter, developing into adults. In the spring they leave the plant and find a mate, and the cycle starts all over again.\n\nSome flies do not need to mate to reproduce, and their offspring are 'clones' of the mother. This is a very quick way of producing offspring, so the population increases very quickly when it becomes warm again.\n\nThe black flies you saw were probably lying dormant in some nooks and crannies somewhere. When the temperature drops, their body processes slow down and they 'hibernate'. When the temperature rises they become active again. Thats probably where you blackflies came from