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<\/a><\/p>\nAfter disappearing for a time and shovelling sand out, she conceals the entrance.<\/p>\n Drone fly, many more than we’ve seen previously.<\/p>\n With hot weather upon us the cicadas are of course making their presence felt with their shrilling. Also clinging to the brick wall, a magnificent robber fly.<\/p>\n A night walk with the camera was productive, this Eurymela species on the Brittle Gum trunk was being attended by sugar ants.<\/p>\n The homes of case moth caterpillars come in many shapes, sizes, and appearances, this one was living on the Grevillea asplenifolia.<\/p>\n And of course night time is ideal to photograph spiders, like this very striking Eriophora pustulosa.<\/p>\n A very large wolf spider has made her home in the prostrate Pultenaea pedunculata. She can’t be seen during daylight hours, but was snapped at her burrow entrance at night.<\/p>\n Male and female Helpis species were recently photographed on the meter box door, this is the feisty little female challenging the photographer.<\/p>\n Getting away from invertebrates, the Red Wattlebirds have been efficiently pollinating the Grevillea Moonlight.<\/p>\n And down near the river the flying foxes are well settled in for Christmas. A chance photo caught a mother and baby side by side with an expectant mother.<\/p>\n Click pictures to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The small birds seem to have have completely deserted us, there is probably plenty of food in the bush with the red gums in full flower at the moment. On the other hand it’s been a bumper season in the garden for invertebrates, starting with the hover flies and the long-legged green flies. They have … Continue reading Christmas Roundup #1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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