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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Anthony Darby on October 06, 2011, 06:49:06 AM
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My garden was visited by this wee cicada today. Perhaps a snoring cicada (Kikihia cutora)?
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These butterflies were in abundance with the lavender bushes when I visited a lavender farm on Saturday. This one was in my car so I brought it home. Did not realise the extra critter was on the leaf when I photographed it.
I think Margaret was trying to photograph the butterflies - with difficulty.
Any idea of name?
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These butterflies were in abundance with the lavender bushes when I visited a lavender farm on Saturday. This one was in my car so I brought it home. Did not realise the extra critter was on the leaf when I photographed it.
I think Margaret was trying to photograph the butterflies - with difficulty.
Any idea of name?
Pat at first i thought wow an Australian skipper of sorts but something tells me it might be a moth,Anthony should know.What ever it is its stunning.
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I agree. A day flying moth.
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Well they were pretty colourful moths.
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Looks to me to be the Grapevine moth( Phalaenoides glycinae ) - an agicultural pest but pretty when it's flying about.
cheers
fermi
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Oh dear and this is in the grapegrowing Barossa Valley!!
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Judging by its colours and pattern it is distasteful to predators.
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My garden was visited by this wee cicada today. Perhaps a snoring cicada (Kikihia cutora)?
How small are they Anthony i have only ever seen quite large ones.
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My garden was visited by this wee cicada today. Perhaps a snoring cicada (Kikihia cutora)?
How small are they Anthony i have only ever seen quite large ones.
About 2 cm long. We have several species of cicada here. This one is found all year, but most of the rest are later in the year.
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Just back from a nice couple of weeks in St. Ives Cornwall. Here are a few of the locals.
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A few more
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Nice pictures Paul, I especially liked the wheatear.
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In a completely unexpected place came across a beaver dam. :o
Beavers could not take photos, but they heard slapping its tail on the water - beaver pond was very large. :)
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I have seen live beavers once or twice although their dwellings are rather common even along some of the roads where I use to drive.
This morning a flock of black grouse cocks (and maybe a few hens) (Tetrao tetrix) paid us a visit. They sat in the birches eating buds when the sun rose above the morning mist. Picture take through the window as they are easily frightened.
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Pat, incredible image of flowering lavender!
Paul, so many interesting birds! How did you steal up to them so closely?
Trond, lucky you saw and photographed that rare and wary bird!
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Ladybird at the Acer pseudosieboldianum leaf.
(http://cs10623.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/131906072/y_cd2668f9.jpg)
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Nice leaf, Olga. Did the ladybird fly? (We call it "Hen of Mary" in Norwegian).
The day I pictured the black grouses I also saw fresh footprints of a lynx in the snow. It had followed a hare. No picture of the lynx though!
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Wow I haven't ever seen lynx or it's footprints! It wold be very interesting and exciting to meet and shoot the animal.
Yes that ladybird flew away. I found it in wet grass and moved to the leaf. Sometimes it opened wings to make them dry. And than it flew.
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I remember how close you got to the Elk, Olga, so we will be expecting Lynx photos soon.... perhaps if you go visit Trond!
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Maggi I'd rather meet a herd of elks than one lynx...
But it's a good occasion to visit Trond! :)
By the way we call ladybird God's cow.
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We call they Ladybugs.
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Arnold, it is poses. :)
My thoughts about animals tracking out reminded me journal of russian scientist and photographer Igor Shpilenok. For some years he's been living at Kamchatka. He photographed many animals (especially bears) and tell about nature live. I'm afraid his journal is only in russian and you can not feel his simple wisdom and respectful love to all leaving things. But you can enjoy his images!
He is a winner of one of photo contests, as I remember.
http://shpilenok.livejournal.com/
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Wow I haven't ever seen lynx or it's footprints! It wold be very interesting and exciting to meet and shoot the animal.
Yes that ladybird flew away. I found it in wet grass and moved to the leaf. Sometimes it opened wings to make them dry. And than it flew.
I remember how close you got to the Elk, Olga, so we will be expecting Lynx photos soon.... perhaps if you go visit Trond!
We should be very lucky to meet a lynx! They are very wary animals - and nocturnal (I am not).
Today we spotted a few willow grouses and a lot of other birds. Fourlegged animals are not easy to spot when you come trampling in the snow. However we saw tracks of elks, foxes, hares, weasels and rodents (lemmings maybe). We even spotted some moths!
I would rather meet a pack of wolves than one supesized ladybug!
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Arnold, it is poses. :)
My thoughts about animals tracking out reminded me journal of russian scientist and photographer Igor Shpilenok. For some years he's been living at Kamchatka. He photographed many animals (especially bears) and tell about nature live. I'm afraid his journal is only in russian and you can not feel his simple wisdom and respectful love to all leaving things. But you can enjoy his images!
He is a winner of one of photo contests, as I remember.
http://shpilenok.livejournal.com/
Do I remember right - a Russian photographer and scientist who lived in Kamtchatca was killed by a bear the other summer?
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Do I remember right - a Russian photographer and scientist who lived in Kamtchatca was killed by a bear the other summer?
That was another one. :) Shpilenok is still alive. :) He moved to Briansk area. And the latest post at his journal is dated by 10.10.2011. :)
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Do I remember right - a Russian photographer and scientist who lived in Kamtchatca was killed by a bear the other summer?
That was another one. :) Shpilenok is still alive. :) He moved to Briansk area. And the latest post at his journal is dated by 10.10.2011. :)
OK, so it is a lot of them there - understandable! I would like to take a trip there myself ;)
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OK, so it is a lot of them there - understandable! I would like to take a trip there myself ;)
To be eaten by a bear? :)
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OK, so it is a lot of them there - understandable! I would like to take a trip there myself ;)
To be eaten by a bear? :)
That had been a life-long experience!
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OK, so it is a lot of them there - understandable! I would like to take a trip there myself ;)
To be eaten by a bear? :)
That had been a life-long experience!
A final life-long experience :P
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Olga, what beautiful images. I went back and look at a couple of previous ones as well.
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We call they Ladybugs.
We use to watch these little beetles climb up our fingers and recite the rhyme:
"Ladybird, ladybird fly away home,
Your house is on fire and your children are gone", by which time they usually flew off.
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Anthony, thats wonderful! We do the same but the song is another:
"God's cow, God's cow,
Fly to the sky,
Bring us a bread,
White and black,
Not burnt!"
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I would like to take a trip there myself ;)
Seriously I would like too. It's an incredible place.
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Arnold, I found his journal in english.
http://wildlife-photo-russia.blogspot.com/
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Olga:
Thanks, I found a couple of sites where is pictures are posted.
wonderful images.
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I would like to take a trip there myself ;)
Seriously I would like too. It's an incredible place.
Olga, can't you arrange for an expedition 8)
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This young lady is a new one to me.
Shorter legged, except for the front pair, than the usual Harvestman (Harvestperson?) I normally encounter.
The body markings were a surprise.
She's cute ;)
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Crikey Fred, if you find HER cute then you'd better never meet me face to face... the excitement would be too much for you! :o ::) ;D
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Crikey Fred, if you find HER cute then you'd better never meet me face to face... the excitement would be too much for you! :o ::) ;D
It ALWAYS is for me, Maggi. x
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Crikey Fred, if you find HER cute then you'd better never meet me face to face... the excitement would be too much for you! :o ::) ;D
Wow Maggi, do you have body markings too? :P
Edit :- I believe she's an Oligolophus tridens
(The harvestperson not Maggi)
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Oh! It's the body markings you find cute? I thought it was the knobbly bits and the short legs...... :-X
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Anthony, thats wonderful! We do the same but the song is another:
"God's cow, God's cow,
Fly to the sky,
Bring us a bread,
White and black,
Not burnt!"
Olga, it is interesting that you call the ladybird "God's Cow" as the Irish for the ladybird is "Bóín Dé" which translates as God's little cow.
Paddy
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Olga,
Thank you for posting the link to Igor's blog - that's another half hour happily spent in front of the computer screen. :D
I wondered whether he was better-known outside Russia, and scrolling down the English version of the blog I found that he is part of the Wild Wonders of Europe project. If anyone hasn't heard of it, here's the link: http://www.wild-wonders.com/ Set aside a evening for this one ;)
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Still a few butterflies around when the sun shines. I saw this Peacock on Friday, a Small Tortoiseshell on Saturday and a Red Admiral today.
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That's lovely Roma, i've only seen one of these this year..
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Please forgive my ignorance but has anyone seen this and could they explain why these are actually needed?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8827505/Bridges-too-far-The-500000-bat-crossings.html
What's more to the point, how do they know where the bats will cross?
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I as a bat man should say I agree but I see bats crossing the road all the time so it is a waste of money. I killed a bat the other week because it crossed the road at the same time.
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Good to know that batman agrees on the dreadful waste of money. I thought there was something that I had missed.
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On Saturday, we had an unusual combination of swallows and house martins hunting over the field behind us, while a flock of fieldfares and redwings passed by.
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Very sad to hear this morning of a man who released many animals from (his private ?) zoo in the States then killed himself. The authorities had to hunt down and shoot the animals for the sake of public safety. They included lions, tigers, bears and others. Good reason NOT to keep such animals in captivity at all.
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You used to be able to buy lion cubs in Harrods!
Today was sunny, windy and cool (~16oC), but I spotted these young mantids on a potted protea. They are <1 cm long.
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Great pics, Anthony!
On the other side of the world they are a bit larger actually. ;)
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These have only been out of the ootheca (egg batch) for a day or two.
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Surely even Maggi would find those babies cute. Not so sure about the bigger one though. :-\
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This morning I found a springbok survivor. Miomantis caffra (springbok mantis, an African import) is known to survive the winter, and I found this one in the front garden this morning. It's about half the size of the Mantis religiosa that Hans showed.
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This young lady appeared to be searching (hunting prey?) for something on the ground.
The antennae were very active.
I'm thinking Polistes sp. but aren't the antennae too long?
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I think it must be an ichneumon Fred?
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Very nice pointer Anthony :D
Now I'm favouring Ichneumon sarcitorius
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Looks suspiciously like it Fred. 8)
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One of my old friends I accidentally disturbed while rearranging trays.
Sorry Maggi
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Holy Moly! I'd rather watch Coronation Street.... could you guys email me in advance when you're going to post pix of these crrepy crawlies so I know to keep away? :o :-X :P
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Holy Moly! I'd rather watch Coronation Street.... could you guys email me in advance when you're going to post pix of these crrepy crawlies so I know to keep away? :o :-X :P
... But 'Spider' Nugent left Corrie ages ago, Maggi ... !!!
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I know what I would have happened to the spider ::)
A few years ago I had a pair of red-faced liocichlas that would almost beg when I had a spider in tweezers. They escaped one day but stayed in the garden for weeks. One morning they didnt come for their mealworms
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya6e5gU5zv8[/youtube]
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Holy Moly! I'd rather watch Coronation Street.... could you guys email me in advance when you're going to post pix of these crrepy crawlies so I know to keep away? :o :-X :P
Streetwise but not spider wise Maggi? I think the clue might be in the topic heading? Wildlife.
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I have no idea who the Spider TV character is, thank goodness........ but in my book Wildlife should be cute furries, not scary things with too many legs...... :o ;D
I don't know.... I'm sure I'm not asking for too much: health for the Westies and the BD ( not necessarily in that order ( ::) ) and enough chocolate to keep me fat..... is that so awful? Do I deserve these creepies appearing without warning??? :-\
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I but in my book Wildlife should be cute furries,
Look closer.... she is furry :D
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Nope! She is hairy... it's not the same thing....
Now, this Canadian Lynx, photo by Art G (http://flickr.com/photos/44237541@N00) is furry......
...and, trust me, they never have more than four legs......
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Now, this Canadian Lynx, photo by Art G (http://flickr.com/photos/44237541@N00) is furry......
...and, trust me, they never have more than four legs......
Odd.... this one has eight legs ;D
( Credit: JEFF LEPORE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)
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I give up!
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Now, this Canadian Lynx, photo by Art G (http://flickr.com/photos/44237541@N00) is furry......
...and, trust me, they never have more than four legs......
Odd.... this one has eight legs ;D
( Credit: JEFF LEPORE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)
Ah well Maggi ... hare today, gone tomorrow!
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I know the Canadian lynx is a very dangerous animal on occasion, but it really is wonderfully beautiful. Am I right in thinking it is endangered? If so I really hope it survives the depredations of the modern world. (Not that beauty should be the criterion of course. That it or any animanl exists should be enough to ensure its place on earth.)
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One of my former pupils went to Canada to work with the lynx. I got some data to back up the classic predator/prey graph used by biologists showing the capture rates of the snow-shoe hare and lynx by trappers of the Hudson's Bay Co. in the early 20th century. I think much of the data were skewed due to fur prices reflecting scarcity, not abundance. Scarcity --> higher price for fur, so more were trapped, therefore the data did not just indicate population size.
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I know the Canadian lynx is a very dangerous animal on occasion...
Well, sure, if you happen to be a snowshoe hare ;)... a statistically inconsequential danger to humans. I've only ever seen one to date - near the Fort McMurray airport in winter a few years ago. Stuart saw one while backcountry skiing in the mountains last winter.
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Well I'm pleased about that Lori, so long as people KNOW it's not dangerous and therefore leave it alone and don't shoot on sight, as often seems to be the case with perceived danger. Shoot first and express regret later. >:(
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If it became extinct would it then be the missing lynx?
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If it became extinct would it then be the missing lynx?
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Well I'm pleased about that Lori, so long as people KNOW it's not dangerous and therefore leave it alone and don't shoot on sight, as often seems to be the case with perceived danger. Shoot first and express regret later. >:(
Can't guarantee that, unfortunately, Lesley... there are just as many idiots here as anywhere else.
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If it became extinct would it then be the missing lynx?
How purrfect, Anthony!
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I'd like to give those hunters what fur!
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Maggi's purrfectly safe with the following as they don't have more (or fewer) than 4 legs and are not hairy. These are some year old Auckland green geckos (one is yellow) Naultinus elegans I got last week.
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These are really beautiful Anthony. I'm pleased you're able to keep them and they seem to be enjoying their new home.
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I'd like to see these in the wild and photograph them, but the Naultinus grayi in another cage are virtually invisible on the Coprosma sp. planted in the cage, so spotting them must be a skill! 8)