Backyard wildlife

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Re: Backyard wildlife

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Quite spoilt, hey? With backyards at home and at the office like that. :-0


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It is quite nice but I don't get a lot of time to appreciate it - I'm usually stuck in an office staring at a computer screen. :-(


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wow nice to have all that so near ^Q^


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Nice office backyard BT! I would not get any work done!!!

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Back to my garden - mostly.

Some moths.... these have been identified as different species of Loopers (Geometridae).
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A Mulberry Hawk Moth.
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The pupa of a Harlequin Ladybird.
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A Weevil.
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I've no idea what this thing is :-?
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A Guttural Toad.
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A Stinkbug?
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Damselflies.
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A Lunate Ladybird with lunch.
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Cuckoo Bee.
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Grasshopper.
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My SO found this adult Ant Lion at her workplace and brought it home for me to photograph - she works in the middle of nowhere and has Eland and Blesbok wandering around the property.

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Not quite my backyard, but close by:

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