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
Angolan epauletted fruit bat Angolan epauletted fruit bat The Angolan epauletted fruit bat ("Epomophorus angolensis") is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Angola and Namibia. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and moist savanna. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was described as a new species in 1870 by British zoologist John Edward Gray. Gray described it as a "variety" of "Epomophorus macrocephalus", which has since been synonymized with the Angolan epauletted fruit bat. Its species name ""angolensis"" is Latin for "Angolan." It is found in two countries in Southern Africa, including Angola and Namibia. It is