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 | Happy New Year People. Yes itsa me, Peter! I like this picture for its redeeming softness, and the purple splash by my right hand ;) Anyway this is a end of the first tenth of the century offering, wishing you all the best for the coming year! | |||
| My Place, Wellington. 9:10 pm, Wed 23rd Dec, 2009 | ||||
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 | Cicadas'. Cicadas' seem to come in all sorts of varieties and the ones we get in New Zealand are pretty dull compared to other countries around the world. The left one I am sure is a baby one, the one on the right seems to be what Australians call 'The Green Grocer Cicada'. Perhaps the feelers do not grow with the rest of the insect since the baby one has a couple of monstrous ones, but the grown ups have pretty minuscule little things compared to their bodies? | |||
| My place, Wellington. 2:54 pm, Sun 9th Mar, 2008 | ||||
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 | Monarch Butterfly on Hebe Flower. Like little flying works of art. They are quite difficult to photograph I find since they are always jumping from flower to flower and with such a limited depth of field I end up spending most of the time they are in reach trying to get them in focus hehe. | |||
| My place, Wellington. 2:43 pm, Sun 9th Mar, 2008 | ||||
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 | The Other Half. The green Moth of the two visitors. The 'fur' is actually a little like feathers on its back, or blades of grass with the tips cut off. You can see the tuft on its back, but this one differs from the black and white one in that it has a few of them running down it back getting smaller the further back they are. I hope they got together and made some babies (assuming they are not a pest of some kind)! | |||
| My Place, Wellington. 5:20 pm, Fri 29th Feb, 2008 | ||||
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 | Not Your Average Moth. One night this moth turned up, I have never seen one like it that I can remember, and soon after a dark green one appeared so I assume one was a male and the other was the female. They both have a sort of tuft at the front end of their back which looks kind of cute. Amazing wee critters. | |||
| My place, Wellington. 3:36 pm, Fri 29th Feb, 2008 | ||||
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 | White Tailed Spider. The White Tail has a reputation for being aggressive and fast, but it is not badly toxic, however their bites have been known to go septic due to bacteria on and around their fangs, the bite has been known to trigger that skin eating infection, Necrotising Faceitus, or something like that, but I was not going to experiment! They apparently don't build webs, but go hunting other spiders in their webs. | |||
| My place, Miramar, Wellington. 9:47 pm, Thu 28th Feb, 2008 | ||||
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 | White Tailed Spider. In this picture you can almost see the fangs where they get down to the pointy ends, and they look enormous. The little hairy feeler things I believe indicates that this is a male, they use those for carrying their seed and passing it on to the female (don't quote me on that though). | |||
| My place, Miramar, Wellington. 9:46 pm, Thu 28th Feb, 2008 | ||||
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 | Underside of a White Tailed Spider. A nice view of this spider (if that is possible) from the outside of the jar he was trapped in! Interesting to see the web material coming out of the back end in several strands gathering together away from the spider. | |||
| My place, Miramar, Wellington. 9:42 pm, Thu 28th Feb, 2008 | ||||
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 | Give Me That Nectar! They are like Bumble Bee sleeping bags! They could shelter in them when they leave it too late to go home ;) | |||
| Ohakune. 10:28 am, Sat 29th Dec, 2007 | ||||
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 | Expectant. Something rather spooky and creepy about these spider 'nests', but they are most intriguing! | |||
| Above Houghton Bay, Wellington. 4:38 pm, Mon 17th Dec, 2007 | ||||
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 | Bumble Bee on a Clover Flower. It took a few pictures of the wind blowing the flower around, the Bee moving and my glasses making it difficult to see the focus to finally get this, I was hoping for one of it's face but that will have to wait. It amazes me how un-creepy Bumble Bees are to look at, they are just cute all over! | |||
| Botanical Gardens, Wellington. 2:52 pm, Tue 6th Nov, 2007 | ||||
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 | Bumble Bee on a Blue Flower. Not the most technically fantastic Picture around, but I like the little Bumble Bee feeding away, couldn't care less what was going on around him, just carrying out it's service to the plant getting a feed at the same time (undoubtedly an over simplification of it all but never mind :)) | |||
| Pekapeka, north of Wellington. 5:38 pm, Fri 21st Sep, 2007 | ||||
