Australia, Northern Territories

26.05.2008 9:34, Ele-W

Euploea core, aka Common Crow







Осы. Ropalidia sp. (Vespidae, Polistinae).©









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26.05.2008 9:48, Ele-W

Green ants.

Oecophylla smaragdina.





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26.05.2008 10:04, Ele-W

Darwin, NT, Australia. February.

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26.05.2008 21:37, Kharkovbut

27.05.2008 7:04, Ele-W

Here, these spiders are called the Golden Orb Web Spider.



A female with a male?

27.05.2008 7:06, Ele-W

Still the same, in motion.

27.05.2008 7:23, Ele-W

It looks like a green ant, but it is large (compared to an ant) and has wings.

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27.05.2008 8:43, Ilia Ustiantcev

27.05.2008 9:20, Bad Den

27.05.2008 10:08, Ele-W

A family of spiders. The size of the largest is about one and a half cm, together with the paws.

Something like Argiope sp.





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27.05.2008 10:12, Ele-W

Nephelus in daylight. They most often sit in deep shade, you rarely see them in the light.

27.05.2008 10:14, Ele-W

Local dragonflies probably do not need? They're the same everywhere, I think... Tell me if you need more pictures. So far, one of the most frequently encountered.

27.05.2008 21:49, Tigran Oganesov

27.05.2008 23:23, Dabr

28.05.2008 6:14, Guest

And I would ask for local beetles, if possible, for viewing

I've never tried to shoot them, but if they do, I'll try to capture them.

28.05.2008 7:03, Guest

It's probably a Tent Spider, Cyrtophora moluccensis, but maybe not.

29.05.2008 2:49, Dinusik

I join the request for beetles! Australian coleopteran fauna brezhu since childhood

29.05.2008 5:29, Mylabris

29.05.2008 6:27, Ele-W

I join the request for beetles! The Australian coleopteran fauna has been delirious since childhood

I'll try to get something, but I've never paid much attention to beetles.

29.05.2008 8:52, Ele-W

January. A small (compared to the rest of the same) spider in a newly woven web.

29.05.2008 9:29, Ele-W

A small spider, together with its legs, will be somewhere around 1.5 cm.

29.05.2008 9:52, Ele-W

Orthoptera, Acridoidea.





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29.05.2008 10:42, Ele-W

Bees (Apis mellifera) on a baobab flower.









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29.05.2008 12:24, Dinusik

Then you should look for the wonderfully illustrated book Lawrence and Britton: Australian beetles.

I've heard of this book, but I can't find it within easy reach yet.
Maybe someone has a scan
And yet the pictures are also wonderful, although it is even better to visit there yourself

30.05.2008 9:24, Ele-W

A local fly. One of the most common ones.

31.05.2008 20:17, taler

01.06.2008 7:55, amara

02.06.2008 8:26, Ele-W

I wish there were more butterflies....

We have very few of them and I can't keep up with them . But I'll try to take pictures if possible.

02.06.2008 8:30, Ele-W

02.06.2008 8:35, Ele-W

Yesterday, coastal mixed forest-mangroves and thorn bushes. This is the first time I've seen such spiders here.

American friends told me that this is the Golden Orb-weaving Spider
Nephila plumipes.
http://www.waratahsoftware.com.au/pages/sp...b_p2010018.html



A large spider about 2-2. 5 cm long, complete with legs.



Small - several mm.



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02.06.2008 8:37, Ele-W

In the same forest, another spider.

05.06.2008 6:47, Ele-W

Another couple of spiders from the same web.









A large spider is about 2 cm in size, a small one in reality seems smaller than it really is - about 2-3 mm, the photo shows translucent long legs, which are almost impossible to see in the shade under a tree.

Interestingly, with any shaking of the web (I accidentally hit it several times while crawling around), the big spider runs to the smaller one and feels it, then returns to its old place in the center of the web.

Photographed in a coastal forest near Darwin, northern Australia.

Here are pictures of the forest, if anyone is interested
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj260/J...6_200817834.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj260/J...6_200817837.jpg

05.06.2008 6:51, Ele-W

Butterflies. Photographed near the previous spiders (coastal forest in the vicinity of Darwin, northern Australia), in a relatively sunny clearing with flowers.

Orange Lacewing (Cethosia penthesilea).







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05.06.2008 23:05, Kharkovbut

06.06.2008 7:37, Ele-W

A very large moth.

12.06.2008 5:01, Ele-W

Darwin neighborhood, northern Australia. April.

12.06.2008 5:18, Ele-W

UPD
I was told here that these are Stretch spiders, Long-jawed or Four-jawed orb weavers, Family Tetragnathidae.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/australian/t...agnathidae.html







Fogg Dam, NT, Australia. April.

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12.06.2008 7:04, Ele-W

I found insanely bright beetles on lime-shaped hibiscus trees on the coast. Plants and location here:

http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...402&hl=hibiscus

The beetles themselves.

UPD
It's not a bug, it's a bug of some kind.











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12.06.2008 9:03, Dinusik

It's not a bug, it's a bug of some sort . But what a handsome man he is!

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