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 05/05/2009 08:05:35 PM · #1
I've posted very few photos this year, so here are some from last year. I took them in my friend's garden at his property near Tumut, New South Wales.





05/05/2009 08:13:33 PM · #2
Some nice natives........Was wondering what was coming seeing we are in Autumn at the moment and flowers are nowhere tobe seen
 05/06/2009 06:40:00 AM · #3
Anyone else care to look?
Roz, do you know what the bugs are on the banksia?
 05/06/2009 08:07:29 AM · #4
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Anyone else care to look?
Roz, do you know what the bugs are on the banksia?


Looks like what you got there are a pair of Dindymus ventralis AKA The Harlequin Bug.
Coloration for the species varies from yellow to red it seems, but I think that's a positive ID (though I'm admittedly not from the area...the Rocky Mountains are more my stomping ground). That's a pretty wild looking plant they're sitting on as well.
I really like the textures and clarity in the bee photo too.

Message edited by author 2009-05-06 08:08:12.
 05/06/2009 06:14:07 PM · #5
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:


Looks like what you got there are a pair of Dindymus ventralis AKA The Harlequin Bug.
Coloration for the species varies from yellow to red it seems, but I think that's a positive ID


Thanks. I guess you're right. So, I wonder if they are native to Australia, if they're alos in the Rocky Mountains.
 05/06/2009 06:32:13 PM · #6
Originally posted by Pug-H:
I've posted very few photos this year, so here are some from last year. I took them in my friend's garden at his property near Tumut, New South Wales.







Interestingly I was born at Tumut, beautiful place in Autumn.
 05/07/2009 12:34:59 AM · #7
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:


Looks like what you got there are a pair of Dindymus ventralis AKA The Harlequin Bug.
Coloration for the species varies from yellow to red it seems, but I think that's a positive ID


Thanks. I guess you're right. So, I wonder if they are native to Australia, if they're alos in the Rocky Mountains.


Oh, I looked into it a bit. I just pointed that out because the picture wasn't terribly close up on them so features were hard to pin down definitively, and, having never seen one myself in person, I could be wrong. The species doesn't range here, but I knew what order to start at and a couple families to look into for a solution, so I had a good starting point. I just have personal experience with insects here, so it's a lot easier to say "oh I've seen that it's a ____" instead of having to pose educated guesses.
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