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dalekboy ([personal profile] dalekboy) wrote2006-04-08 12:19 pm
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Bugs and spiders

Bugs and a few spiders from the trip. I've gotten a huge collection of bug pics in the last year or so. If anyone can give me the proper names of some of these, that would be great.

[edit] Special thanks to [livejournal.com profile] drhoz for filling in some of the huge gaps in my knowledge.



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This guy was at Stoke's Inlet. Fast moving and fast digging as well. [edit] And it's called a Digger Wasp.


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These little guys were very friendly and loved landing on us and just sitting there.


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Outside the toilets at Cocklebiddy. So cute with the big yellow blobs on its antenna. [edit] It's an owlfly.


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This is the beetle Karno saved from the pool. It was with this photo that it started moving. [edit] And its friends call it prionine cerambycid. But I call it Ted.


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Fairly well camoflaged little spider.


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Big moth at Nullarbor.


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A Fraser Range bull ant says "I'll'aveya!"


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Love the colour.


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Moth I saved from the sinks at Cocklebiddy.


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Sandfly putting the bite on my coat at Eucla.


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[edit] Mantispid from Albany


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Love the patterns and colours.


Special bonus bug!
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Tiki perving on a cicada as it gets changed.

[identity profile] dalekboy.livejournal.com 2006-04-08 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
So which is the Mantispid?

[identity profile] drhoz.livejournal.com 2006-04-09 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
the thing you think is a praying mantis


the other lacewing is an owlfly :) see my next LJ post on themanyway *squee!*