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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #75 on: June 11, 2009, 05:46:03 PM »
Cheers Ashley, patience, perseverance, luck, and alot of very bad photographs!
Anthony,
You are quite right and as such it is a Terrapin and not a Tortoise, oops, only seen 3 Tortoises this year then! Strangely I have no recollection of seeing its tail before it pulled into it's shell! The tail is the big give away I guess, still not complaining as this is only the second Terrapin I have seen in the wild!
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #76 on: June 11, 2009, 08:44:27 PM »
The little bee thingy's into pebbledash as a building material. More lovely butterflies. I do appreciate these pics of northern species, that we never see here. Even the beauties in the Otago Museum's butterfly exhibit are tropicals so we still don't get the hardier types.
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #77 on: June 11, 2009, 09:15:16 PM »
Lesley,
Maybe Anthony could send you some!  ;) ;)
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #78 on: June 12, 2009, 01:44:30 AM »
He could send but I couldn't receive. No chance. Butterflies and anything animal-related is as much a no-no as so many plants. :'( :'( :'(
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #79 on: June 12, 2009, 02:17:45 AM »
Robin,

I love the pics of your industrious little bee.  Please keep us posted as to the home extensions please.  ;D
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #80 on: June 13, 2009, 11:30:31 AM »
Quote from: Paul T on June 12, 2009, 02:17:45 AM
Robin,

I love the pics of your industrious little bee.  Please keep us posted as to the home extensions please.  ;D

Today the entrance to the final insect-bee chamber has been sealed and she (I assume) is rather flightly as I'm watching her and whatever is inside is a secret  ;)  Has anyone any clues as to what is going on inside the 'pebbledash' housie?

(sorry for quality of BCU)
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #81 on: June 13, 2009, 11:42:48 AM »
She must be building little nest chambers, don't you think? It's not going to be easy for the little ones to break free, though, is it? As well as an egg, there must also be some food source immured with it in the chambers....... ???   Alll MOST interesting. :)


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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #82 on: June 13, 2009, 12:45:21 PM »
Robin,

Probably in each chamber there is some insect that has been paralysed and an egg laid, or something like that.  It will hatch, eat and pupate before breaking out?  If fully sealed I assume it would work like that, as she can't feed it from outside after hatching.

If today is your birthday, you haven't put it into the calendar.  Happy Birthday from me also!
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #83 on: June 13, 2009, 02:10:10 PM »
Thanks for the comments Maggi and Paul about the insect bee and am wondering how long before the little B will break out  ;) 
Also thanks for the Birthday Happys - gorgeous weather here today and lots of insects flying about in a most complex stacking system with no techology - glad to be on this planet ;D
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #84 on: June 13, 2009, 08:27:15 PM »
I concur with Robins comments about the weather, day one of three here in Switzerland has been glorious.  Butterflies abound and in the cool of the morniing a Swallowtail kept still long enough for a photo.  You will have to wait until I get home to see it :)  Adelboden looks like a good place to spend a day or two, flowery places aplenty,  Tomorrow I move up to Hahnenmoos pass ... just as the weather is forecast to turn thundery ... should be fun!
Oh and a very Happy Birthday from a fellow Swiss based forumist!
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #85 on: June 13, 2009, 08:36:27 PM »
Happy Hols, Tony!  :-*
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #86 on: June 13, 2009, 09:43:26 PM »
Quote from: tonyg on June 13, 2009, 08:27:15 PM
I concur with Robins comments about the weather, day one of three here in Switzerland has been glorious.  Butterflies abound and in the cool of the morniing a Swallowtail kept still long enough for a photo.  You will have to wait until I get home to see it :)  Adelboden looks like a good place to spend a day or two, flowery places aplenty,  Tomorrow I move up to Hahnenmoos pass ... just as the weather is forecast to turn thundery ... should be fun!
Oh and a very Happy Birthday from a fellow Swiss based forumist!

Thanks for your greetings Tony, and have a wonderful time in Adelboden, we were supposed to have gone to Italy but business has kept us here and I'm hoping for a holiday soon - although with the weather as it is every day is a holiday  :)
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #87 on: June 14, 2009, 03:12:52 PM »
I can appreciate the emotions displayed in the first two images (captured on a local walk on Friday).

... And the third image was taken on a trip to Edisford Bridge, near Clitheroe, Lancashire yesterday.

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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #88 on: June 14, 2009, 03:29:01 PM »
Two more from the riverbank yesterday ...
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #89 on: June 15, 2009, 01:02:31 AM »
Lovely pics Cliff. Didn't you just LONG to go and scratch that wide expanse of tummy?
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