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Message 1960292 - Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 16:53:23 UTC - in response to Message 1960017.  

A spider and its former meal on the left.

Is there supposed to be a photo?

No, I was quoting your picture.

I didn't even notice the little bug.
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Message 1960293 - Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 16:54:26 UTC - in response to Message 1960019.  
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That is an amazing and interesting spider type.

Body shape is quite unique.

Do you know what it's 'official' name is?

Is it edible?.. (Just in case one travels 6000km and decides to creep into my mouth whilst I am sleeping.. )

Good macro.

A spider in my back yard. It's really difficult to photograph things tiny like this. ;-)

I only know that it's some sort of orb weaver. Spiny orbweaver, from the pix I find when googling.
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Message 1960295 - Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 16:55:48 UTC - in response to Message 1960021.  

Crab Spider?

No, I don't think so. Spiny orbweaver.
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Message 1960319 - Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 21:19:19 UTC

The Moroccan Flic-Flac. No personal encounters - but a fine reason to enjoy a night-in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1hctUr0E14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebrennus_rechenbergi#Behavior
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Message 1960327 - Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 21:53:15 UTC - in response to Message 1960319.  

That's a great bug!
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Message 1960710 - Posted: 18 Oct 2018, 0:28:11 UTC - in response to Message 1960319.  

The Moroccan Flic-Flac. No personal encounters - but a fine reason to enjoy a night-in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1hctUr0E14

They didn't show the bit at the end where it throws up.
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Message 1962039 - Posted: 26 Oct 2018, 23:39:20 UTC

If you've got a fear of spiders, then you probably shouldn't check out this story.
Remote school students dig up the mystery of Maningrida's aquatic tarantulas.
In 2015, headlines describing the stuff of horror movies brought the tiny town of Maningrida, population 2,000, to world attention.
International media outlets described the town, 500km east of Darwin, as being in the grip of a "mega cluster" of venomous tarantulas that can "rip open your skin".
The real story was much less dramatic, but so much about the lives of the large population of tarantulas that dive underwater remains a mystery to scientists that the local school has begun investigating.
The West Arnhem Land town sits near a floodplain believed to host the highest concentration of tarantulas in the world.

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Message 1964000 - Posted: 8 Nov 2018, 23:44:29 UTC
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This tiny creature (some kind of moth) visited me today. It landed on a lampshade.
It was no more than one inch from nose to butt.
(I took this photo with my iPhone 7 with no special settings or lenses.)


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Message 1964320 - Posted: 10 Nov 2018, 7:02:44 UTC

That's beautiful!
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Message 1966679 - Posted: 22 Nov 2018, 23:21:27 UTC

Lots of termites!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/science/termite-mounds-brazil.html
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Message 1966944 - Posted: 25 Nov 2018, 3:23:18 UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termite

Next only reflecting on the color difference here, except for the flavor it also could represent, for just the background.
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Message 1967315 - Posted: 27 Nov 2018, 0:41:19 UTC

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Message 1967595 - Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 23:39:32 UTC

How Close-Up Glamour Shots Are Generating Buzz for Bees

The pictures were taken for science, but found a wider audience because they’re gorgeous and a little trippy.
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Message 1968766 - Posted: 5 Dec 2018, 6:37:28 UTC
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Bee swarm creates alarm for pedestrians in central Hobart.
A roadwork sign above a busy street in central Hobart has been swarmed by bees.

President of the Tasmanian Beekeepers Association Lindsay Bourke said it is not unusual to see bee swarms in cities.
"They're in some of the churches and various commercial buildings and also in some residential properties," he said.
"A swarm comes out of every hive every year unless a commercial beekeeper or someone who knows about bees prevents them from swarming.
"The way to prevent them from swarming is to give them room for their expansion."


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Message 1968767 - Posted: 5 Dec 2018, 6:39:44 UTC - in response to Message 1968766.  

A roadwork sign above a busy street in central Hobart has been swarmed by bees.

That's very surreal.
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Message 1969821 - Posted: 10 Dec 2018, 21:31:18 UTC

Got this image from Physics-Astronomy on Facebook.
"Photographer Murat Öztürk captured an ant trying to take down a flying wasp"



Tried to link directly to the image but couldn't.
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Message 1969871 - Posted: 11 Dec 2018, 8:02:37 UTC

That's a great shot.
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Message 1969980 - Posted: 12 Dec 2018, 7:32:22 UTC

The Dracula ant, nature's fastest mover on record, can snap its jaws at 320kph.
Researchers say the tiny blood-sucking creature powers its mandibles by pressing the tips together, spring loading them with internal stresses that release when one mandible slides across the other — similar to a human finger snap.
"These ants are fascinating as their mandibles are very unusual," said animal biology and entomology professor Andrew Suarez, who helped lead the study.

"Even among ants that power-amplify their jaws, the Dracula ants are unique. Instead of using three different parts for the spring, latch and lever arm, all three are combined in the mandible.
"The ants use this motion to smack other arthropods, likely stunning them, smashing them against a tunnel wall or pushing them away. The prey is then transported back to the nest, where it is fed to the ants' larvae."

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Message 1971325 - Posted: 21 Dec 2018, 8:48:55 UTC

Well I just gave a few dozen flies the head job of their lives, I doubt that I hear any complaints coming from my industrial vac. ;-)

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