So, this cave is full of bats and birds. What do they do? Well, poop a lot. Most of it falls on the floor inside of the tourist trail, some of it falls on the tourist trail, and some of it falls on me and my camera while I am trying to photograph the place. Fun stuff.
So let's have a look at a few of the many things that live on the floor, relying on the nutrient-rich rainfall, so to speak.
So let's have a look at a few of the many things that live on the floor, relying on the nutrient-rich rainfall, so to speak.
This little golden cockroach is mostly only found under the big colonies of wrinkle-faced bats. It is kind of a neat little thing burrowing in the guano
This is the larval form of some insect, which I hope to determine later. It is so cool as it takes the broken up plates from the insect exoskeletons and glues them to its back for camoflage and a kind of body armor. It will use other things, but the ones like this one are the coolest looking
I think this is a fungal gnat, but this is Borneo and there are things here I need time to work out
A 2mm long spider. Now that is one itsy bitsy spider
There are tens of thousands of cockroaches in the caves here. When they molt, they come out of their shell as a whitish yellow. Males have wings, females do not
A beetle that is common in some parts of the cave and absent in others. Maybe this is the adult of the larva I previously posted?
A parasite. This could be something groomed off of a bat or a bird
There is of course a lot more, but this is a start
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