Re: Backyard wildlife
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:10 pm
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Backyard wildlife
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Re: Backyard wildlife
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:20 pm
nil carborundum illegitimi
Re: Backyard wildlife
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:25 pm
what have the rats do with it 
Re: Backyard wildlife
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:26 pm
Who mentioned rats?
Re: Backyard wildlife
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:33 pm
Google says that You did! 
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(My Latin is not what it used to be )Re: Backyard wildlife
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:39 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundumLisbeth wrote:Google says that You did!
Re: Backyard wildlife
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:05 pm
BTW: The Hawkie is an African Humming Bird Moth Macroglossum trochilus
At this rate of beautiful sightings we don't get around with the IDs
At this rate of beautiful sightings we don't get around with the IDs
Re: Backyard wildlife
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:29 pm
Thanks for the correction! These days I don't have a lot of time to ID them after I've spent time getting the shots and then more time processing them. Winter is a good time for identifying and cataloguing.Toko wrote:BTW: The Hawkie is an African Humming Bird Moth Macroglossum trochilus
At this rate of beautiful sightings we don't get around with the IDs
Re: Backyard wildlife
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 12:50 pm
Great photos...very nice 
Re: Backyard wildlife
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:39 am
Winter has arrived in Johannesburg, a bit earlier than usual. The low temperatures seem to be keeping the bugs away and the past long weekend's sightings were very sparse.
This appears to be a Dragonfly I've not seen in my garden before, unless it's a morph of the Red Veined Dropwing.
Some kind of bug I've not seen before.
Another example of the Thyreus Pictus Bee.
A Yellow Pansy Butterfly, the first I've managed to get pictures of.
And a day flying moth - very difficult to photograph as they do not settle; they feed while hovering at flowers.
That was it for the weekend. It's almost time to hibernate.
This appears to be a Dragonfly I've not seen in my garden before, unless it's a morph of the Red Veined Dropwing.
Some kind of bug I've not seen before.
Another example of the Thyreus Pictus Bee.
A Yellow Pansy Butterfly, the first I've managed to get pictures of.
And a day flying moth - very difficult to photograph as they do not settle; they feed while hovering at flowers.
That was it for the weekend. It's almost time to hibernate.