Australia, Northern Territories

28.12.2011 17:39, Ele-W

Poor trophies from a walk through the Botanical Garden.

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Darwin, NT, Australia. December.

28.12.2011 17:40, Ele-W

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Darwin, NT, Australia. December.

28.12.2011 17:40, Ele-W

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Darwin, NT, Australia. December.

28.12.2011 17:42, Ele-W

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A very small bug... I think it's a bug, maybe not a bug at all.

28.12.2011 17:43, Ele-W

Darwin, NT, Australia. December.

28.12.2011 17:49, Ele-W

An awfully delicious palm tree.





Darwin, NT, Australia. December.

28.12.2011 17:50, Ele-W

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28.12.2011 17:51, AGG

28.12.2011 17:51, Ele-W

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Darwin, NT, Australia. December.

28.12.2011 17:53, Ele-W

if she is lucky, she will become a bug, but for now only a larva

Looks like a bug, but not a bug = bug larva!

Thank you, I'll know.

14.05.2012 14:31, Ele-W

Magnetic Termite (Amitermes meridionalis). I didn't see the termites themselves, although I was looking for them, so I can only show them termite mounds. But there are a lot of them.

Litchfield National Park, NT, Australia. If you go to the park not on the main road (via Batchelor), but on the dirt road (via Berry Springs), then after 30-40 minutes after turning onto the dirt road, you can see whole "termite cities" that look like strange cemeteries from a distance.

14.05.2012 14:35, Ele-W

Termite mounds stand in a clearly marked "strip" on which trees and shrubs do not grow. The strip runs from south to north and almost all termite mounds are also oriented north/south with their" edges".

14.05.2012 14:38, Ele-W

14.05.2012 14:42, Ele-W

In the Wet season, the ground around the termite mounds is completely flooded, as soon as the rains stop - the water dries up and gradually a sonorous "hard dried mud" is obtained, which instantly rises in a column of dust from any passing car. But cars rarely go there, which is good.

14.05.2012 14:44, Ele-W

At the junction of the "termite belt" and the bush.

14.05.2012 14:48, Ele-W

The "stripe" itself. It is very hot and dusty to walk there, it is hard to breathe, so all the time I want to turn to the edge of the strip, where at least some shade and even a little moisture has been preserved from the Wet period.

14.05.2012 14:50, Ele-W

The fallen termite garden is restored again.





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14.05.2012 14:53, Ele-W

Animal trail. Judging by the tracks, wallabies and kangaroos trampled from one of the termite mounds to the bush and back again. I don't know why they did it.

14.05.2012 14:54, Ele-W

Another animal trail.

14.05.2012 14:55, Ele-W

I want to hide in the shade of the trees.

14.05.2012 15:01, Ele-W

After a little rest in the shade, I return to the "strip" again. Ternitniki "in profile", you can see how thin they are.







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14.05.2012 15:02, Ele-W

14.05.2012 15:02, Ele-W

The tips.

14.05.2012 15:03, Ele-W

Someone's "doll".

14.05.2012 15:03, Ele-W

14.05.2012 15:11, Ele-W

I found a very tempting track going deep into the bush. I succumbed to the temptation, got in the car and drove there to see "what's there".

14.05.2012 18:10, Aaata

15.05.2012 6:21, Ele-W

Pouch cover (Psychidae).

Thank you.

15.05.2012 13:58, Ele-W

The tempting track turned out to be a fiction and ended just around the first bend, running into a thicket of trees, so I had to get out of the car and again stomp on foot to the nearest termite mounds. Which stuck out, surprisingly, among the trees, and not on the "empty lane".



This post was edited by Ele-W-15.05.2012 13: 58

15.05.2012 14:03, Ele-W

Among the termite mounds, looking for insects.

15.05.2012 14:09, Ele-W

And then I found a delicious spider (Eriophora biapicata, I already showed it here right after the trip) and spent the rest of the time spinning around it!

15.05.2012 14:09, Ele-W

And then I found a delicious spider (Eriophora biapicata, I already showed it here right after the trip) and spent the rest of the time spinning around it!

15.05.2012 14:18, Ele-W

And then my husband got tired of the spider getting all the attention, so he suggested leaving the animal alone and taking a ride to the next termite mounds, which are a few kilometers down the road (if you turn in the direction of Dravin). And he persuaded me, and we got in and drove off.

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15.05.2012 15:07, Ele-W

This group of termites is not "on the strip", but just in a clearing, there are not very many of them and they themselves are smaller than the previous ones, but still-on average, two meters in height.







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15.05.2012 15:10, Ele-W

The same primer that you can use to get to the "termite places".

15.05.2012 15:16, Ele-W

15.05.2012 15:18, Ele-W

15.05.2012 15:25, Ele-W

15.05.2012 16:18, Ele-W

At dusk, I saw another group of termites. I couldn't resist running quickly along the rough track, past the silent gray hulks.







It was very nice there-quiet, absolutely still air, smells of hot earth, the Central Ring Road is singing. I wandered there until dark.