Saturday, August 15, 2009

Pictures of Sites # 7

Mount Palakong Simbahan - Real - Quezon Province - East Luzon
So here it is the pics of my favourite mountain so far .....! Trully phasmids paradise, me and Joachim Bresseel (on second picture below) found a stagering 20 species on a single night on that mountain and covered only half of its height to 500m asl, total elevation is 1070m asl.
Long and tough climb to reach even half of the mountain but such rewarding....found there were tisamenus, periphetes, phyllium, asystata, nescicroa, scionecra, pharnacia and so on.....! Hopefully that entire site can remain as it is for a long time still, free of any loggings or forest clearings/fires. Place should be protected whatever the costs !




































1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I didn't know we have those beautiful species, thanks for posting it. Good Luck!

By the way i'm from Lucena City, capital of Quezon province, there are more sites here in our province that you can explore.

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