This tree has been re-planted by local people from the Batak tribe. The incense from this tree is one of the main livelihoods of this trip at Cleopatra's Needle, Palawan. A local conservation NGO Centre for Sustainability is assisting the tribe in their reforestation efforts.
Sighting and photos (c) mz2.
Field Notes - small
white
moth
2cm
Sighting and photos (c) mz2.
Field Notes - small
white
moth
2cm
Sighting and photos (c) mz2.
Field Notes - Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Oecophoridae
Genus:
Hofmannophila
Spuler, 1910
Species:
H.?pseudospretella
Binomial nameHofmannophila pseudospretella
(Stainton, 1849)
This tree has been re-planted by local people from the Batak tribe. The incense from this tree is one of the main livelihoods of this trip at Cleopatra's Needle, Palawan. A local conservation NGO Centre for Sustainability is assisting the tribe in their reforestation efforts.
This tree has been re-planted by local people from the Batak tribe. The incense from this tree is one of the main livelihoods of this trip at Cleopatra's Needle, Palawan. A local conservation NGO Centre for Sustainability is assisting the tribe in their reforestation efforts.
The picture is kind of grainy since it was raining quite hard, I I couldn't take a good one, but you can see the long pitcher plants on the left.
Captured during a fieldwork in the suburbs of the city during the Philippine summer.
One of the rare species of Rafflesia that can be found and endemic of panay island Philippines. Rafflesia speciosa.