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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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5 per day was the target =O:

Indeed great progress here - we are not so bad O\/ X#X ^Q^ O/\


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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5 per day... you are superman O-/

indeed a lot of work ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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5 per day was suggested (or was it a demand) by ExFmem =O:


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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:-0 :-0 It was politely DEMANDED 0= But like many dictators, I'm not living up to my own decrees. :twisted:
Okay, 2 down, 2 to go. (Can't find ANYTHING on the stick insect except distribution.) :-(


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Re: Animal ID

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Richprins wrote:Any ideas on this?

In our toilet in Nellies today, about the length of a pack of cigarettes!

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Looks like a leaf!
O/\ O/\ O/\

This is a Pselaphelia flavivitta Leaf Emperor Moth
Family: Saturniidae. Subfamily: Saturniinae


Medium-sized (wingspan 90 mm), varying from bright yellow to rusty yellow. Fore wings with pointed and slightly hooked tip. Eyespot on each wing

This one is greenish :twisted: because RP can not take proper [O]


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interesting one \O ... a bit blurry --00--


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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leachy wrote::) :) :) :)

can anyone give me the real name for this "creature"

it is not rp's toupee

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Monkey moth caterpillar (Eupterotidae)


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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I have got almost the same hairy... even swiming in water :-?


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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[quote="BluTuna"]Here's the unidentified stuff from my last few days in the garden.

And a not quite so ugly fly.
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Homoneura sp. Family:Lauxaniidae -O-

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homoneura_sp.jpg

H.laxifrons, rhodesi, or africana etc? I haven't gone through the whole key, but the wing venations are close. Time for dinner, but just throwing it out there O**

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/b ... sequence=1


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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:shock: :shock: :shock: Looks like a match O:V O:V O:V

Homoneura rhodesi has the correct wing patterns ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^


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