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fermi de Sousa

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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #120 on: January 03, 2012, 03:17:03 AM »
Warning! Warning! Warning!
If you don't like creepy crawlies don't look any further!
A flash of orange caught my eye while in the Rock garden and on closer inspection I saw a wasp dragging a large spider off to become fodder for its young! It went over quite a bit of rough terrain and eventually went down into a crack in the earth.
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #121 on: January 03, 2012, 06:09:04 AM »
Terrific pics. 8)
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #122 on: January 03, 2012, 06:16:00 AM »
stunning wasp Fermi.
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #123 on: January 03, 2012, 06:24:10 AM »
Quote from: daveyp1970 on January 03, 2012, 06:16:00 AM
stunning wasp Fermi.
I was hoping that Anthony would put a name to it !
 ;D
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #124 on: January 03, 2012, 07:15:34 AM »
Quote from: fermides on January 03, 2012, 06:24:10 AM
Quote from: daveyp1970 on January 03, 2012, 06:16:00 AM
stunning wasp Fermi.
I was hoping that Anthony would put a name to it !
 ;D
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Same here ;D
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #125 on: January 03, 2012, 07:20:30 AM »
It looks very like a tarantula hawk wasp. I saw a similar one in Croatia a few years ago. This could be Cryptocheilus bicolor, which as a big Australian spider wasp?
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #126 on: January 03, 2012, 08:10:11 PM »
Quote from: daveyp1970 on January 03, 2012, 06:16:00 AM
stunning wasp Fermi.
Well the spider thought so anyway. :D

What is the yellow plant if first crawled through Fermi?
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #127 on: January 04, 2012, 02:23:18 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on January 03, 2012, 08:10:11 PM
What is the yellow plant if first crawled through Fermi?
Hi Lesley,
Relhania pungens, a shrubby South African daisy - looks great for 2 weeks followed by a month of dead brown heads and never a self sown seedling!
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Re: Wildlife December 2011
« Reply #128 on: January 04, 2012, 10:57:31 PM »
I thought it looked a bit like one of the shrubby helichrysums, except the flowers were a bit TOO daisy-like. The foliage is a little like the Australian red helichrysum that I think is now called Edwardia or something. Heli ?
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