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Lesley Cox

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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #195 on: October 29, 2009, 07:58:25 PM »
Quote from: Kees Green on October 28, 2009, 11:40:45 PM
Hi Lesley
You definately dont need to go to Waitomo for a good display, I have been there and Te Anau  and the displays are fantastic but we have a lot of glowworms around Dunedin, Leith Valley near the camping ground is a good spot, you walk up the path by the creek-the Leith and there are cliffs on the right hand side, all along there there are glow worms. As a kid I went light trapping there for Lepidoptera and quite often I was wanderng around looking for the glow worms.


Kees, that's good to know and maybe I'll go looking in the summer, on some dark night. Or perhaps a warm night would be best? Dunedin is so fortunate to have so much bush around, green areas, wetland, even mountains and lakes that there is an amazing selection of wildlife within walking distance, let alone the penguins, seals, albatrosses etc all there for a short drive.
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #196 on: October 30, 2009, 12:10:39 AM »
Sigh.  You make me want to visit, Lesley!  ::)  I enjoyed NZ when I visited there with my family in my teens (Dad was most amused to find that the hospital he was born in was now a nursing home!  ;D).  I can't remember whether we made it to Dunedin or not. but we did both islands (separate year for each).  Was a truly breathtaking place, NZ.  Wish I could afford to go back for another visit. :'(
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #197 on: October 30, 2009, 08:29:59 AM »
Anyone able to put a name to these little fellas - apart from caterpillars, of course?   :D  Image taken in the Dolomites - of course!   ::)
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #198 on: October 30, 2009, 09:59:02 PM »
Looks like Eriogaster arbusculae?
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #199 on: October 30, 2009, 10:05:03 PM »
The caterpillars look much nicer then the moth :D
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #200 on: October 30, 2009, 10:20:03 PM »
I don't know, I rather like the eggar moths. 8)
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #201 on: October 31, 2009, 10:49:41 AM »
Bulgaria calling Anthony, any ideas for this grasshopper? ???
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #202 on: October 31, 2009, 11:25:59 AM »
Acrida ungarica, which can also be green.
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #203 on: October 31, 2009, 12:01:01 PM »
Many thanks Anthony, nice to put a name to it!
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #204 on: October 31, 2009, 07:12:39 PM »
I do like Cliff's caterpillars. It's only the top, the bottom and the outer left hand specimens that show how hairy they are. I suppose they dine on Potentilla nitida and Ranunculus glacialis? ;D
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #205 on: November 27, 2009, 12:03:46 PM »
Please NOTE: November thread is now divided off  from this one!
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