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Leafhoppers of Belair…
Author Marianne Broug โฆ I present my collage of a number of the Typical Leafhoppers, Family Cicadellidae that I have seen in Belair National Park. They are all very small. I’ve only included the ones of a similar shape โฆ… Continue reading
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When we’ve finished …
Author Marianne Broug โฆ I sometimes wonder โฆ when we’ve finished wrecking the planet โฆ when we’ve finished trampling all the beautiful creatures that only wish to live โฆ when we’ve finished โฆ I sometimes wonder โฆ what will survive?… Continue reading
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THE EYES OF FLIES!
Author Marianne Broug โฆ I frequently make up various collages etc. with the aim of education or for simply getting folks excited / interested / enthused about insects and our natural world. This is a collage of some amazing fly… Continue reading
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Landscape of a Leaf
Author Marianne Broug โฆ Yesterday I saw this gum leaf backlit by the sun and contrasted against the dark trunk of a Eucalyptus obliqua (Messmate stringybark). I thought it was simply magic. Such wonderful shapes. So often people think leaves… Continue reading
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“The indestructible insect”
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Velvet ants, one of my all time favourite little critters. In the family Mutillidae they are related to the Thynnid wasps and are a wingless wasp (females only) but oh so much more capable. The females… Continue reading
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Glad we bagged one before they were all goneโฆ
Author Gary Taylor โฆ This little cutie is Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) “mysterium puella”, one of my first “unknown” species and the girl that not only drew me into the world of the smaller and lesser known native bees, but also taught… Continue reading
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it has two tear drop markings on it’s backโฆ
Author Gary Taylor โฆ So it turns out my new Bembix is likely an entirely new undiscovered speciesโฆ Cool, but they were crap photos focus wise (my camera isn’t great with moving targets), so I went back out today to… Continue reading
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say hello to Bembix lupiae
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Here’s a new one for me, pardon the crap pics but they were all I could getโฆ He/she (dunno but for the sake of the story I’ll say “she”) was flighty asโฆ I’m out in the… Continue reading
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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!
Author Annette Fraser-Dunn โฆ OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! My new bee hotel has a TENANT! I am a tad excited. My neighbour over the back fence called out because she thought I was having a seizure. I yelled back,… Continue reading
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Photogenic posers…
Author Terry Dunham โฆ One of the many reasons I love finding the Leafless Orchids (Praecoxanthus aphyllus) is the photogenic nature of them… and finding interesting and amusing poses… Here we have a Double Leafless flower stem, and a couple… Continue reading
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Blowing bubbles…
Author Koh Lin โฆ I woke up this morning from dreams of blowing bubbles… When we were younger, I am sure many of us would have enjoyed blowing those bubbles, seeing the bubbles being blown into the air, and running… Continue reading
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The beauty and the…
Photograher Michael Doe โฆ Once upon a time…In a place not so far away…There was the beauty and the… There is a saying that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder…“ Photographs ยฉ Michael Doe Now thatโs a Wrapโฆ… Continue reading
