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What’s around – mid January

The wet season I was greeting a month ago has been playing hide and seek ever since. We have had very little rain out of it so far, although areas around Townsville have had a little more, and have been … Continue reading

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Turning over a new leaf

I was going to write a post with this title for New Year’s Day, playing on the New Year / New Leaf association by literally turning over leaves and showing what was underneath them. However, someone or something else intervened. The … Continue reading

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Another kind of mantis

A month ago I wrote about finding a group of tiny just-emerged mantis nymphs. (‘Nymphs’ covers all stages of development except adults, from just-hatched to nearly fully developed.) In a footnote to that post I mentioned a larger nymph I … Continue reading

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What’s around – mid December

In the last three weeks we have finally had some rain (see previous post for details) and the insects are responding. We have more … Beetles – mostly 12mm long brown beetles, with a few green ‘Christmas beetles’, flying to … Continue reading

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