Projects from Botswana

Arctiinae of southern Africa icon

Arctiinae of southern Africa

A base for keys, guides, links and other info for the southern African Arctiinae. If you have any useful...
Biodiversity of Botswana icon

Biodiversity of Botswana

BOTSWANA NEEDS YOU ! CITY NATURE CHALLENGE 2024 APRIL 26 to 29 Here is our chance to show off Botswana'...
Bird calls of southern Africa icon

Bird calls of southern Africa

A place to collect records of bird calls from southern Africa
Birds of Botswana icon

Birds of Botswana

Post observations of birds in Botswana to show case Botswana's amazing bird biodiversity.
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Botswana plants with Kalanga names

This project collects together plants found in Botswana which have names in Tjikalanga. The names may be ...
Botswana - Nature and pollution icon

Botswana - Nature and pollution

A project to show the effects of ALL kinds of pollution on nature in Botswana. Observations could includ...
Botswana beetle larvae icon

Botswana beetle larvae

Discover and document beetle larvae and pupae in Botswana. Here is a project which collects all observa...
Botswana Molluscs  : Snails, slugs & bivalves icon

Botswana Molluscs : Snails, slugs & bivalves

Discover and document the snails, bivalves and slugs that are found in Botswana, both on land and in water,...
Botswana Observations March 2023 icon

Botswana Observations March 2023

Observations made in Botswana in March 2023
Botswana's bees, wasps and ants icon

Botswana's bees, wasps and ants

To show off the amazing bees, wasps and ants of Botswana !
Botswana's hard to ID beetles icon

Botswana's hard to ID beetles

A project for Botswana difficult to ID beetles.
Botswana's interesting, elusive & hard-to-ID plants. icon

Botswana's interesting, elusive & hard-to-ID plants.

This project collects together records and information about rarely seen, long unidentified, tough-to-iden...
Botswana's trees with bark removed. icon

Botswana's trees with bark removed.

Bark is sometimes removed from trees to create medicines and other concoctions. The removal of bark may ser...
Bryophytes of Southern Africa icon

Bryophytes of Southern Africa

A project to document Southern African mosses, liverworts and hornworts focussing mainly on South Africa. T...
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BW Terrestrial Nature and Plastic

Help document the effects of plastic pollution on animals and plants in Botswana. This is part of a glob...
Caddisflies - Trichoptera of Botswana icon

Caddisflies - Trichoptera of Botswana

Discover and record the trichoptera of Botswana
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Compost heap 2 Marulamantsi Gaborone

Invertebrates and fungi found in a Gaborone compost heap. It was made of a very large variety of garden pl...
Cryptocephalinae of Botswana -  Case-bearing leaf beetles. icon

Cryptocephalinae of Botswana - Case-bearing leaf beetles.

Discover and document cryptocephalonae - Clytrini and Cryptocephalini which are found in Botswana.
Earwigs  - Dermaptera of Botswana icon

Earwigs - Dermaptera of Botswana

Discover and record the earwigs that live in Botswana.
Escaped garden plants of Botswana. icon

Escaped garden plants of Botswana.

Escaped plants of Botswana Escaped plants are cultivated plants, usually garden plants, that are not ori...
Faces on Nature - Botswana icon

Faces on Nature - Botswana

Some insects and spiders seem to have faces on their backs, which may help to scare away predators. A ...
Freshwater Fish of southern Africa icon

Freshwater Fish of southern Africa

A Project to extract our freshwater fish from the many marine ones. This is based on taxonomy, so will be s...
Gaborone Compost Heap number 1 icon

Gaborone Compost Heap number 1

This project is to document life-forms found in a garden compost heap started on 12.4.20 in Gaborone, Bot...
Illuminating discussions about Botswana's plants icon

Illuminating discussions about Botswana's plants

Collects together observations of Botswana plants that have provoked valuable discussion with useful insights.
Insects & spiders on Glandularia aristigera  plants -  Botswana icon

Insects & spiders on Glandularia aristigera plants - Botswana

Insects & spiders on Glandularia aristigera (verbena aristigera) plants found in a garden in Gaboron...
Interesting moths Botswana icon

Interesting moths Botswana

INTERESTING MOTHS OF BOTSWANA This is a project to bring together observations of Botswana's hard to I...
Leucaloa eugraphica caterpillar rearing. Gaborone BW icon

Leucaloa eugraphica caterpillar rearing. Gaborone BW

10 Pillarswere found on 26 April 2020 in a garden in Gaborone. Garden white lily, Kalanchoe sp, smal...
Lichens of Botswana icon

Lichens of Botswana

To display and get the Lichens of Botswana identified.
Life in cow dung - Botswana icon

Life in cow dung - Botswana

Botswana's animals, fungi, seeds and seedlings found in, on or under cow dung. Balls of cow dung made by d...
Mammals of Botswana icon

Mammals of Botswana

A collection of records, information and links about the wild mammals of Botswana.
Mantises of Botswana icon

Mantises of Botswana

Discover and document the praying mantises (mantodea) of Botswana.
Medicinal Wild Plants in Botswana and their names. icon

Medicinal Wild Plants in Botswana and their names.

To document the uses and local names of wild plants found in Botswana which have and are being used in trad...
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Moth ID assist

limited sample observations to assist in moth ID
Paralacydes arborifera reared on white garden lily leaves 27.4.20 icon

Paralacydes arborifera reared on white garden lily leaves 27.4.20

One pillar was found on leaves of a cultivated white garden lily on 27.4.20 https://www.inaturalist....
PEST TRACKER  -  BOTSWANA icon

PEST TRACKER - BOTSWANA

The aim of this project is to collect data and provide information about agricultural, horticultural and fo...
Pillars feeding on  asparagus  suaveolens in Serowe BW icon

Pillars feeding on asparagus suaveolens in Serowe BW

Rearing of caterpillars found on asparagus suaveolens found in Serowe Botswana. Has anyone else seen t...
Plant pests in Botswana's gardens and farms icon

Plant pests in Botswana's gardens and farms

Discover and document the pant pests in Botswana's gardens and farms
Plants found in Botswana and eaten elsewhere . icon

Plants found in Botswana and eaten elsewhere .

This project brings together observations of plants occurring in Botswana and eaten in other countries arou...
Plants found on Serowe Sandstone icon

Plants found on Serowe Sandstone

To document the flora found on sandstone in the Serowe area of Botswana , which appears to be different fro...
Possible anoplolepis ant  associations in Serowe icon

Possible anoplolepis ant associations in Serowe

Invertebrates that are often found under basalt rocks in Serowe together with anoplolepis ants. These ants ...
Psyllobora, fungus, mulberry and zinnia interactions in Botswana icon

Psyllobora, fungus, mulberry and zinnia interactions in Botswana

This project brings together observations of Psyllobora beetles, their larvae and pupae and interactions ...
Rust-covered vachellia pod galls of Serowe, Botswana. icon

Rust-covered vachellia pod galls of Serowe, Botswana.

This project collects together observations made of galled pods/flowers found on a small group of vachel...
Scorpions of Botswana icon

Scorpions of Botswana

Discover and document the scorpions found in Botswana ?
Senokane Hydroponics Biodiversity  in Gaborone BW icon

Senokane Hydroponics Biodiversity in Gaborone BW

This project records, the pests, pollinators. useful insects, plant diseases and plants associated with a s...
Serowe Landfill  wildlife and plants. icon

Serowe Landfill wildlife and plants.

This project records observations of plants, fungi and animals from the Serowe landfill in Central Botswana,
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Southern African Birds

Southern Africa has a very rich avifauna with many endemic species. This is remarkable as southern africa i...
Swollen thorns in Botswana. icon

Swollen thorns in Botswana.

Swollen thorns on vachellia and senegalia trees in Botswana and the organisms that make them and reside ins...
Tree Planting in Botswana icon

Tree Planting in Botswana

A site for posting photos of trees that YOU have planted in Botswana. Please try to add photos trees or g...
Unusual moths of Serowe icon

Unusual moths of Serowe

Unusual moths of Serowe which are rarely seen here.
Vegetation Units of Botswana icon

Vegetation Units of Botswana

Bekker & De Wit 1991 Vegetation Map of the Republic of Botswana Please add the vegetation type. N...
Wildlife in homes and buildings: Botswana icon

Wildlife in homes and buildings: Botswana

Discover and document the wildlife living inside homes in Botswana
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