Stuff I find in gardens
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:06 am
Not really art, I just like taking pictures of bugs with my phone.
I met this charming fellow today.
Ma'am, I believe you are on the wrong tree.
Flatspider.
Uhh... These are not supposed to be in Darwin.
Bzzz.
Caught a leaf in the throw net one night and found this little fella clinging to the underside with its specialised legs. I'd never seen anything like it before. It looks as if the four elongated legs are used to subtly propel the leaf around or else waft detritus toward the crab's mouth for consumption, or maybe because they're so long they're for reaching out and clinging to things. The other four shortened legs are used to cling to the underside of the leaf. The crab's claws are extremely short and probably useless for predation, so the crab is probably a filter feeder or detritivore. It's a male crab as evinced by the thin tail folded onto its underside.
Very pretty moth. I usually see much smaller subspecies of this moth, probably less than a 5th of the size of that one.
Native bees. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!
#Stealth
I met this charming fellow today.
Ma'am, I believe you are on the wrong tree.
Flatspider.
Uhh... These are not supposed to be in Darwin.
Bzzz.
Caught a leaf in the throw net one night and found this little fella clinging to the underside with its specialised legs. I'd never seen anything like it before. It looks as if the four elongated legs are used to subtly propel the leaf around or else waft detritus toward the crab's mouth for consumption, or maybe because they're so long they're for reaching out and clinging to things. The other four shortened legs are used to cling to the underside of the leaf. The crab's claws are extremely short and probably useless for predation, so the crab is probably a filter feeder or detritivore. It's a male crab as evinced by the thin tail folded onto its underside.
Very pretty moth. I usually see much smaller subspecies of this moth, probably less than a 5th of the size of that one.
Native bees. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!
#Stealth
