{"id":1038,"date":"2018-01-22T04:05:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T04:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2018-09-29T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T10:46:12","slug":"the-native-garden-ecosystem-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2018\/01\/22\/the-native-garden-ecosystem-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Native Garden Ecosystem #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mid summer and the White Brittle Gums have shed their bark and are looking fresh and bright.<\/p>\n

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The glaucous-leaved pink-flowered E. tricarpa from our foothills is heavy in bud,<\/p>\n

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just starting to flower and giving the Rainbow Lorikeets a feast.<\/p>\n

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The Tau Emerald, Hemicordulia tau differs from the Australian Emerald in having bronze pterostigma and leading edge wing veins, the Australian has black.<\/p>\n

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Not all weevils have long snouts…….<\/p>\n

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The female Scorpion-tailed Spider, Arachnura higginsi is certainly a different looking animal. While she was being observed, a fly flew into the orb web and was quickly captured. A short time later it had been transformed into a black blob of spider food.<\/p>\n

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More than one species of spider suspend their egg sacs like this example on the clothes hoist, the spider that made it is unknown.<\/p>\n

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Two St. Andrew’s Cross spiders have been under observation, one up under the eave is a pale individual and so far has fixed two egg sacs close to the web. They are unusually large compared to the size of the female spider.<\/p>\n

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A pair live in a grevillea, and on two occasions the fat female has disappeared for twenty four hours to return to the web much reduced in size. A search found one of her egg sacs hidden in the foliage. While she is absent the male takes up position in the web.<\/p>\n

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Mid summer and the White Brittle Gums have shed their bark and are looking fresh and bright. The glaucous-leaved pink-flowered E. tricarpa from our foothills is heavy in bud, just starting to flower and giving the Rainbow Lorikeets a feast. The Tau Emerald, Hemicordulia tau differs from the Australian Emerald in having bronze pterostigma and … Continue reading The Native Garden Ecosystem #8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}