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<\/a><\/p>\nAfter a shower, a check of the rain gauge disclosed five millimetres and an unusually coloured Redback Spider, a small female in her brightest clothes….<\/p>\n
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Small grasshoppers are quite abundant and can be found sitting quietly and cooperatively on assorted vantage points, in this case the frond of an elkhorn fern.<\/p>\n
Not far away a very small robber fly was perched on the brick wall, highly enlarged.<\/p>\n On a red gum, a mealybug ladybird larva, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri was slowly moving about.<\/p>\n Dropping from foliage to the ground, an assassin bug, Gminatus australis wouldn’t stop and was snapped on the move.<\/p>\n As previously mentioned, Odonata are scarce, but as always, very photogenic.<\/p>\n Black-faced Percher, Diplacodes melanopsis, male.<\/p>\n Females.<\/p>\n Hemicordulia australiae, Australian Emerald, black pterostigma, small yellow tail spot.<\/p>\n Teneral male Blue Skimmer, Orthretrum caledonicum, blue just starting to appear.<\/p>\n Lastly, a tiny moth perched on a Correa glabra flower, Thema brevivitella, (Oecophoridae) Most images will enlarge with a click.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With butterflies, spiders and Odonata have not been around in their usual numbers in the garden, possibly a seasonal thing connected with the long dry. This post is as the title suggests, a variety of creatures snapped in the garden. We expected a lot of St. Andrews Cross spiders after the many females with egg … Continue reading Variety.<\/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-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","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=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe larvae of this genus feed on the dry leaf litter helping to recycle it into the ground.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n