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Just out of curiosity, why “meat” ants? They don’t seem very meaty at all! Also this is a very cool thread op, thank you for showing us the less immediately deadly side of Australia.
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Alien Sex Manual posted:Just out of curiosity, why “meat” ants? They don’t seem very meaty at all! Thats's their name. Probably because they are more likely to swarm any unattended meat left at a barbeque/etc than any other type of ant. They are very common and widespread across the continent. They would do a good job on anything that dies too. Ants that eat meat = meat ants. munce fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Jun 16, 2020 |
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------------ WEIRD BUG ANT SITUATION ---------------------------- Someone's getting milked for their precious fluids but it's not me               
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------------ UNKNOWN BUG ------------------- These things are all over the place. They look like they are growing through different body stages/sizes, but always with the two long tails. This is one of the small ones, ~5mm.     
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------------------ TERMITES ------------------------------ Starting a nest in some horse dung     Interesting trees   ------------------------- PODS ----------------------------------   
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---------------- VARIOUS BUGS ---------------------   Jumping spider. There are millions of these things around.   Different spider       Sap  Ant  Beetle
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You lucky bastards don't have chagas disease, do you? It's why I hate Assassin bugs.
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Telsa Cola posted:You lucky bastards don't have chagas disease, do you? No chagas here but i still wouldn't want one of those things crawling on me
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---------------------- BUGS ------------------------------   This is a bigger version of the type shown before with the two tails 
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Can someone ID this? What a lovely bud
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Jun 17, 2020 07:59
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Planthopper nymph? Yeah looks like it. Maybe not same species but 
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God I love threads like this. Great photos op!
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---------------------- SPIDERS -------------------------------- These ones build a web in a bowl shape   Fake eye spots visible on the back   This one was stuck to the top of a tall grass stalk. Maybe eaten by a bird    Big teeth 
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munce posted:------------------------- PODS ----------------------------- Those are egg sacs (ootheca) of preying mantids. The little red mantis might have come out of one of them. Love your photos and voted 5.
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Great thread, thank you!
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The tree ants that have the teardrop shaped bums are crematogaster The meat ants are collecting sweet excretion from the leafhoppers. They belong to Iridomyrmex, rainbow ants, there's many kinds in Australia. The super bitey black pavement ants are also Iridomyrmex, possibly Iridomyrmex bicknelli. Meat ants I think got their common name from stripping carcasses quickly of their meat. The round pod hanging from a string is a spider egg sack, the round pods on the leaves are wasp galls. The empty spider husk is just a shed. Kharnifex fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Jun 17, 2020 |
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----------------------- BIRDS --------------------------------- Parrots       Pigeons  Lake      
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Holy moly that IS a long spider.
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munce posted:The crows and raptors here have learned to eat the toads by pulling the guts out through the mouth. Nature is very adaptable. That's metal as gently caress.
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loving evil rear end cane toads. Monsters which should be eradicated from the face of the earth.
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sigher posted:That's metal as gently caress. I've got a picture somewhere. Might be on the work computer. I'll post it if i can find it.
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Kharnifex posted:The tree ants that have the teardrop shaped bums are crematogaster Cool info. Thanks
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sigher posted:That's metal as gently caress.  Found it
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 A dingo
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----------- BIRDS -------------------- Finches   Kookaburras or similar. Not sure with that blue colouring 
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