Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) Basket of Fruit (c.1599) is a still life painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan. It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit: ... a good-sized, light-red peach attached to a stem with wormholes in the leaf resembling damage by oriental fruit moth (Orthosia hibisci). Beneath it is a single bicolored apple, shown from a stem perspective with two insect entry holes, probably codling moth, one of which shows secondary rot
Azagnyi fruit bat decline. Azagnyi fruit bat The Azagnyi fruit bat ("Megaloglossus azagnyi"), also called the western Woermann’s fruit bat, is a species of megabat found in Africa. It was described as a new species in 2012. Its description was the result of a taxonomic split of the Woermann's bat, which was previously the monotypic representative of the genus "Megaloglossus". Its species name ""azagnyi"" is derived from Azagny National Park in Ivory Coast. Azagny National Park is the type locality for the species. It is a relatively small frugivorous bat species, weighing . Its forearm length is . Its fur is uniformly dark