Africa, Part 3

Cicada

Grasshopper looks exactly like a dead leaf

A tiny grasshopper is less than 1 cm long

Big grasshopper with rainbow underwings

Moth

Walking stick

Butterfly

Butterfly

Among the locals these beetle larvae are considered “the best meat”. They are not bad if properly fried...

Big freshwater shrimp Macrobrachium vollenhovenii (Palaemonidae)

The same shrimp

In the local creeks the freshwater crabs are numerous

With a flyrod it was possible to catch mostly tiny fish which could embellish any aquarium (this is Raiamas buchholzi)

This fish Brycinus schoutedeni was caught with a bait of the oil palm seeds

One of the barbel species (Labeobarbus compinei)

This little catfish Parauchenoglanis pantherinus belongs to the “armored catfishes”. Very similar fish with the same poisonous spines are found in our Amur River.

This small fish (Distichodus hypostomatus) looks like a grayling

Some of the diverse barbel species are hard to distinguish

I am trying to fish in the Congo River near the city of Brazzaville. The megapolis Kinshasa is at the opposite bank

Downstream from Brazzaville the Congo River is passing powerful falls

Falls at the Congo River

Falls at the Congo River

At the Atlantic ocean coast near Point-Noire