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Ranunculus lapaceus bloom & Unidentified Insect on creek floodplain on Mornington Peninsula.
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she was about 12 mm from tail to eyes, situated no more than 300mm from the floodplain; in front, she was behind a ring of R.Iapaceus with frequent insect activity; behind were tall grasses, making it difficult for birds to swoop in and out again, and making it more difficult to see her.
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these little orange and black, winged nectar feeders (unidentified) proliferated in late October, early November and seemed mainly concerned with tea tree (L. scoparium, L. continentale & L. laevigatum) blooms and their nectar. some could be seen apparently resting on long grasses in the shade, after a big feed … Mornington Peninsula.
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Senecio minimus or Shrubby Fireweed (so called because of the Fireweeds’ regenerative capacities after fire or land use change disturbances) is the habitat of these grubs; nothing eats it but them and they eat nothing but it, apparently. this is the first year since these Senecios have been enabled regenerate here that the grubs have appeared.
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there are so many spider killing birds and wasps here that it is rare to see the same spider more than once. when she was not setting her web between two L. scoparium flower spikes, she sat and sensed silk vibrations from the tops of the flower spikes individually. she was about six millimeters from tail to eye. / i did not find her again. there is no reason to accept the spelling of goddess with two d’s, this was not a typo : )
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i don’t know the names of either of these insects, but the foliage that they do what they do on is Eucalyptus kitsonia (not indigenous to this area, but indigenous to the island). whiskered ants are nonagressive, numerous and inquisitive. one favoured habitat for them is older Eucalyptus Prioriana; they bore into trunk or limbs and hollow them out; they seem to be nectar feeders, but they’re always at something, and it doesn’t appear that they carry anything away with them in their jaws (except their eggs); a favourite food appears to be the stringy bits of bananas. the two miniscule aphids on the right are an extra puzzle to this, but they identify the bug at an earlier stage ( see – 1108 early quasi aphids & E.ovata 6650.jpg) apart from devouring several of the leaves of their host plant, i don’t know what the so called aphids do.
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this shot of these tiny insects helped me to identify a later form of the same. / (see – 1108 whiskered ants & quasi aphids 6790.JPG).
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in this shot, members of the same ant group and a simultaneous brood of newly stripped down aphids (see – 1108 whiskered ants & quasi aphids 6790.jpg) . i’m not sure what the ants’ role in this is: they seem only concerned to touch the aphids up and collect substance from them to the right of branch is a group of four ants, a sloughing aphid ( ? ) and a number of white fluid deposits in lines. what the aphids get is unclear. as the ants appear to be stingless and not agressive, defense of the aphids would not be a function of the ants. the ants’ attention to the aphids continues after the latter have hardened up.
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Senecio minimus gets the Tangenong Award for most eaten plant in November ! the Senecio minimus caterpillar gets the award for most prolific grub over the month of November ! : )
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