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<\/p>\n…for the observer of the world of invertebrates, which makes it such an interesting occupation. A wander in the riverside reserve came up with this on the trunk of a young silver wattle, Acacia dealbata, a Cottony Cushion Scale (Icerya purchasi) egg case. Originating from Australia, the sap sucking insect is now found world-wide as a pest on citrus, with wattles also a favourite food.<\/p>\n
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Common Flatwings always seem to invite the photographer to take another snap.<\/p>\n
Austroargiolestes icteromelas.<\/p>\n
The Bursarias in the reserve are just starting to come into flower, and although they are a magnet for many species of insect, just one in large numbers is there so far.<\/p>\n Stenoderus suturalis, the Stinking Longicorn.<\/p>\n A chance sighting on a brick wall was another first, a Common Drone Fly, Eristalis tenax. This bee mimicking hoverfly is found world-wide except for Antarctica.<\/p>\n In the garden, numerous Honeybrown Beetles, Ecnolagria grandis are present, they feed on dead plant matter and haven’t been noticeable in previous years.<\/p>\n Native bees have been sparse this season. This Hylaeus nubilosus was very interested in a small hole in a mortar joint for a nest site and checked it out for some time. It had however been used by other creatures including jumping spiders, and eventually the bee decided to look elsewhere.<\/p>\n A couple of fly shots to finish, a mating pair of Stiletto Flies,<\/p>\n And another pair, unidentified.<\/p>\n Some images will enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …for the observer of the world of invertebrates, which makes it such an interesting occupation. A wander in the riverside reserve came up with this on the trunk of a young silver wattle, Acacia dealbata, a Cottony Cushion Scale (Icerya purchasi) egg case. Originating from Australia, the sap sucking insect is now found world-wide as … Continue reading There’s always something new….<\/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-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","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=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix24\/fwing.jpg\")
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