Khao Yai National Park

 

Just finished two days in Khao Yai national Park and it was not enough. The birding we did do was pleasant enough and we did get some very good birds and some excellent mammals.

Too much time was spent in the vehicles and not enough time looking for birds. We did not do any birding on trails, perhaps because of the weekend crowds. No doubt we missed birds of the jungle understory because of this.

Much of our birding therefore was road side. And around camping grounds.

Our first day bird of the day, controversially, was Elephant.

The second day was more universally avian - Rosy Minivet.

Other bird spp?

Night safari description.

linneated Gibbons calling bouncing ball type call.

Insects

Durian Psyllid Allocaridala malayensis 

Psyllidae, the jumping plant lice or psyllids, are a family of small plant-feeding insects that tend to be very host-specific, i.e. each plant-louse species only feeds on one plant species (monophagous) or feeds on a few closely related plants (oligophagous). Together with aphids, phylloxerans, scale insects and whiteflies, they form the group called Sternorrhyncha, which is considered to be the most "primitive" group within the true bugs (Hemiptera). They have traditionally been considered a single family, Psyllidae, but recent classifications divide the group into a total of seven families;^{[citation needed]} the present restricted definition still includes more than 70 genera in the Psyllidae. Psyllid fossils have been found from the Early Permian before the flowering plants evolved. The explosive diversification of the flowering plants in the Cretaceous was paralleled by a massive diversification of associated insects, and many of the morphological and metabolic characters that the flowering plants exhibit may have evolved as defenses against herbivorous insects.

Several genera of psyllids, especially among the Australian fauna, secrete coverings called "lerps" over their bodies, presumably to conceal them from predators and parasites.^[3]

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