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44 of a kind
Last week in a post entitled “Life on the Eucalypt” I showed a couple of shots of a Eucalypt leaf beetle (Chrysophtharta cloelia). To keep the theme going, I thought today’s post should be of a...
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The jaws of a killer
It’s easy to forget when you see a delicate looking lacewing that they are in fact a carnivorous species. Even at the larval stage lacewings begin feeding on moth larvae and eggs, aphids, thrips and...
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Little miss common
After the pink flower spiders and common lynx, the small garden jumper (Opisthoncus parcedentatus) is the next most common spider I run across when out shooting. In the high stakes world of the beauty...
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Can you ID this one?
With the onset of spring, even given my limited time out shooting at the moment it is clear that a lot of different species are starting to show up. One of the species that I am now seeing quite...
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State of play
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve managed any shooting and in that time we have finally had some decent rains. Many of my shooting areas were in serious need of water with brown rather than green...
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Revealing an identity
After what proved to be a fruitless search on my part in a previous post (Can you ID this one? – 25th September), I was very pleased to be given a lead by a fellow poster on the FM macro forums. Now...
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Feeling crabby
Regardless of whether spiders are something you love or something you hate, I would hope that most people would find at least something intriguing about them if they were to view them with an open...
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What’s green and yellow and purple?
Answer: One of the best looking orb web spiders I’ve come across yet! Have you ever had one of those moments when you’re scanning the leaves of a tree or bush and a flash of colour catches your eye?...
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Beauty is in the EYES of the beholder
There is a common saying that the eyes are the window to the soul. If that is true, then the Flower feeding March fly must have one of the most beautiful souls around. The faceted eyes of most insects...
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Change of address
The start of 2012 sees this blog on the move… I’m currently in the process of consolidating websites and as part of the process, I am wrapping my various sites up under the anthonytancredi.com domain....
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