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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #180 on: October 27, 2009, 05:15:11 PM »
Quote from: ranunculus on October 27, 2009, 05:12:46 PM
British television at it's very best, Robin ... they have all been tremendous.

How many have I missed Cliff  :o
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #181 on: October 27, 2009, 05:19:53 PM »
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #182 on: October 27, 2009, 05:51:10 PM »
Thanks for the info Mark, will hope you can download them at a future date, shame to have missed such special TV amongst the :P
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #183 on: October 27, 2009, 07:31:30 PM »
Quote from: Paul T on October 26, 2009, 09:35:50 AM
There is a glowworm grotto a couple of hours north of here in the Southern Highlands at Bundanoon.  I have no idea how widespread they are here in Aus, but I have been to see them at night before up at Bundanoon.  Very, very cool.  8)

Is this a relation of the New Zealand Glowworm (Arachnocampa luminosa)? See http://www.waitomo.com/waitomo-glowworm-caves.aspx. I visited this cave many years ago - absolutely fascinating insect which fishes for its prey using light as a bait. See also http://www.waitomo.com/Waitomo-glow-worm.aspx

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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #184 on: October 27, 2009, 07:32:03 PM »
Yes, it seems the Australian one is also an Archnocampa spp. - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnocampa
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #185 on: October 27, 2009, 07:57:14 PM »
I really should make the effort to see the Waitomo caves. I've always put it off as I'm a bit claustrophobic. Quite a lot actually. Passed up an opportunity to see the Janolan caves in NSW for the same reason. :-[
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #186 on: October 27, 2009, 08:00:23 PM »
Quote from: ranunculus on October 27, 2009, 05:12:46 PM
British television at it's very best, Robin ... they have all been tremendous.

So probably won't be shown here then. >:(
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #187 on: October 27, 2009, 08:42:55 PM »
They all come out on DVD quite quickly.
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #188 on: October 28, 2009, 12:14:12 AM »
Stephen,

Yes, my idea of a glowworm is a little creature that produces sticky threads then lures unsuspecting prey into their clutches to eat them!  I didn't realise that overseas the glowworms are fireflies (or I think that is how I've read the other comments in this topic)?
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #189 on: October 28, 2009, 08:02:11 PM »
Paul: The Glowworms I've seen in the UK are beetles. You see them out in the open. I've seen them twice in the UK - on the Dorset and Argyll coasts.
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #190 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.
As for the northen hemisphere I to always thought these to be beetles, I have never seen them but would like to one day.
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #191 on: October 29, 2009, 11:17:36 AM »
Quote from: Stephenb on October 28, 2009, 08:02:11 PM
Paul: The Glowworms I've seen in the UK are beetles. You see them out in the open. I've seen them twice in the UK - on the Dorset and Argyll coasts.
I've seen them a couple of times on Ben Ledi (a mountain just north of Callander, Perthshire) on the night of the longest day and on the island of Cumbrae, off Largs, Ayrshire. Also, near Christchurch, Dorset in the 1970s (it was in Hampshire then).
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #192 on: October 29, 2009, 11:53:57 AM »
Quote from: annew on October 22, 2009, 04:08:39 PM
Cripes, Gerry. You won the lottery or something?  ;D ;D

Its finished, after two days of my son and his mate working from 'dawn' [11.00] till about 6.30. I now have an 11.5 ft shed ;D

I could've done it quicker myself, but young people need something to do 8)

Gerry
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #193 on: October 29, 2009, 12:00:41 PM »
...but think of it as work experience, Gerry, they will never forget it! Our son was put to task on post and rail fencing for the whole of summer holidays - he now does his own carpentry!
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Re: Wildlife October 2009
« Reply #194 on: October 29, 2009, 12:32:41 PM »
Quote from: Ragged Robin on October 29, 2009, 12:00:41 PM
...but think of it as work experience, Gerry, they will never forget it! Our son was put to task on post and rail fencing for the whole of summer holidays - he now does his own carpentry!

I paid them; happily not on an hourly rate  ::)

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