Great looking pods, Shurb!
I'm guessing with that really light green colour its a peach something or other?
Sort of looks Bhut-ish in the top piccy but the 2nd one doesn't look like a Bhut!
A few shots of mosquitos (yeah I know, not the greatest subject matter :P)
Mozzie biting me: *touch wood* there is no malaria or dengue fever around here:
Mozzie with a belly full of my blood:
Dead mozzie with a belly full of my blood :P
Haha ... DO IT!!!
Man, now I have this image of aphid heads stuck on spikes, Ned Stark style :P
Pfft ;) Jeez m8, how much time are you spending on the boat reno? Are you renovating the gawd damn Titanic or something!
But seriously, good luck with it, sounds awesome!
Since I don't do 'glogs' I'll spam some of my photos in here.
NFI what this is, I bought some Reaper seeds from chillico.com.au last year and this is how one of them turned out. Pod shape is all over the place on this plant, some look like choc. habs, some look like Choc Morugas and some...
It's been annoying me since you posted it but I finally found it. It's called Poecilopachys australasia AKA Two-spined spider :woohoo:
Lovely Cardinal shot, Chris!
So I'm doing a little bit of bird photography (the feathery kind :P ) lately. I've got an app. on my phone that has the...
Hey Gas, could you possibly take another shot showing the top of its abdomen?
I'm trying to I.D. the little sucker, you see, it could be related to you, it might be in the genus Gasteracantha.
Thanx m8.
It's a bit hard to tell from that photo but it doesn't look like a hover fly. Just watch its flight characteristics, you'll soon see if it's a hoverfly or not because they ... err ... hover.
I wouldn't mind betting its a type of wasp maybe a Copidosoma species (not native to NZ)
Either way, they...
And to carry on with the above theme, what annoys me is when someone says "hey, great photo, you must have a really good camera".
It's like saying to a chef that just cooked an awesome meal "hey chef, you must have a fantastic oven" ... grrr!