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Cassowary (with a bung eye) swallowing passionfruit 
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Some Noctuid moths Xanthodes tranversa  keeping warm https://i.imgur.com/oYeszSU.mp4 Erebus crepuscularis 
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Sorry about my ealier post of moths going offline. Here again is that big noctuid moth Erebus crepuscularis  and I hope you like my backyard bird buddies Padre y joven 
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Have seen these feeding on my flowers on and off for years and yesterday I got a buzz out of recording one Bombyllidae the bomber beefly https://i.imgur.com/56mNLCc.mp4
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and in slow motion you can see him wiping his face after eating https://i.imgur.com/0Es3BFx.mp4
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Shiney McShine posted:Have seen these feeding on my flowers on and off for years and yesterday I got a buzz out of recording one  that buzzin little blue banded critter is not a beefly (Family Bombylidae; Order Diptera) after all. After advice from an entomologist, it is actually a solitary blue banded bee (Family Apidae; Order Hymenoptera). There are true beeflies in my area and some have banded butts (abdomens). Here is an actual beefly (Bombyliid) that I photographed in my garden several years ago  note that it has two wings and a blue eyed grasshopper to atone for my sins... 
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I met this strange fly on the weekend. That's a signal fly in the family Platystomatidae, probably my favourite fly family that includes stalk eye flies https://youtu.be/2rGxK8oNF70 Slugworth posted:This guy was fluttering around in the dark last night, and I thought it was a small bat at first before he landed on the screen. I put my hand in for scale, but then forgot how perspective works, so allow me to just say, he was about the size of my hand. I've never seen one of those big beauties before. Last night I found this big hawkmoth chilling patiently on my screen door...  
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Jul 2, 2023 12:21
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Scarodactyl posted:Love those little guys. My garden gets regular visits from hummingbird hawkmoths just about every day, right at dusk. You hear the hum of fast beating wings and get excited to catch a glimpse of one as it zooms from flower to flower. Considering their speed and low light conditions though, I've never been able to get a good photo 
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Saw this critter in a cheapish motel I stayed in last night. At first I thought it was a spider but on closer inspection, it was a parasitic wasp that lays eggs in cockroach ootheca (egg cases).  I didn't see any live cockroaches running around in the motel, so it looked like this wasp Evania appendigaster was doing a great job of biological pest control.
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Aug 18, 2023 12:04
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A big (3-4 metre long) diamond/amethyst python visited me in far north Queensland. It was probably hunting for the bandicoots which have been digging holes in my garden to eat my earthworms. It might have also been looking for bats to eat, as we've had a few of them around lately. Diamond pythons are the longest snakes in Australia and can grow up to 6 metres in length. They are known to sometimes catch and eat wallabies (small kangaroos).   
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Aug 27, 2023 05:21
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Big diamond pythons are pretty docile, generally. Not like brown snakes which can get pretty aggressive, if you go anywhere near them. It was cool early morning (about 4am) when I heard a noise in my garden and thinking it was bandicoots digging holes again, I went outside to protect my earthworms. The python was so long, it was hard to photograph with my phone in one hand and a torch in another. When the sun came up I found another animal prey the python would have been interested in, a fruit bat in the papaya tree... 
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Aug 27, 2023 06:07
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Yeah OK thanks. I'm no Steve Irwin.
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my cat is norris posted:IDing stuff is half the fun of the thread! please post more i love your critters they're so unique to my eyes OK thanks, here's one thats new to me. It is some sort of case-bearing caterpillar and lives and eats my dust on the floor. I think its a newly introduced domestic pest. Species unknown. https://i.imgur.com/P8dNDjN.mp4 McGavin posted:Smdh if you aren't keeping up to date with the latest advances in herpetological phylogenetics. Haha yeah righto. When I Googled images of pythons on FNQ Oz, it didn't show up the species variety you indicated. Maybe the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science also needs to be updated cause they reckon my snake is called the Amethystine python Morelia kinghorni. Also, I wsn't going to wrestle that drat snake to inspect its scales up close, to help with speciation.
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I posted this in the LOL @ Trump thread and meant to post it here ‘Oh my god’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery I thought it was funny (not for the woman) at first, until I read that the parasitic worm Ophidascaris robertsi is a roundworm usually found in pythons. Yikes. Glad I didn't get too close to that python in my backyard, but maybe it explains my headaches and forgetfulnes of late... Skinks are great little animals. Recently I was in my garden picking off armyworm larvae that have been eating holes in everyting I grow. One overfed larva dropped to the groud right in front of me (I presumed it was ready to pupate in the ground) before I could put it in a bucket. As soon as the fat grub hit the ground a skink appeared out of nowhere and attacked it and killed it, like a crocodile eating a python. I like skinks. Shiney McShine fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Aug 29, 2023 |
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McGavin posted:Probably a case-bearing clothes moth of some sort. There's a lot of them and you need to get a good look at an adult's genitals to get a proper ID. They eat hair and feathers, and can be a pest, particularly if you have wool or other animal fiber clothes. Not a clothes moth, different family and we haven't found any holes in our clothes. They mainly hangs around on the floor or walls chowing down on dust, which could include hair or fibres.I looked it up and I think its a household casebearer Phereoeca uterella https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/occas/household_casebearer.htm It probably is a newly introduced pest to Oz as Ive not seen them until the last 1-2 years. They love humidity and come from a tropical environment somewhere. They're funny to watch because they have symetrical cases with holes at each end and the larva can turn itself around inside the case to change direction he's going. A friend of mine made a lovely video of one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un5ojiJQB5E
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Spring is the best time in tropical Oz. Low humidity (about 70%), warm (20 to 28 oC) and sunny. Lacewing eggs  I haven't seen this one (my favourite moth) for ages  Geometridae
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Don Herbison-Evans (Butterfly House) is a bloody legend. Buck Richardson is also an incredible scholar of Australian moths. Fly tax 
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^^ I call them toothbrush caterpillars  https://i.imgur.com/Iq52lQb.mp4 shakin' midgee https://imgur.com/gallery/3Z8dic3 midgees making more midgees Shiney McShine fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Sep 21, 2023 |
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A suave Saturniid moth, Syntherata janetta The wingspan is at least 3 inches (80mm) Gecko stalking its next meal 
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Many marsupials (agile wallabies) in the cow paddock  https://i.imgur.com/wRPEuJi.mp4 and a moth 
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Starving katydid forced to eat its own legs to survive... while others party regardless https://imgur.com/Neo0IH9
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