Stick insects are popular here as pets
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A Bug for Dan
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Stick insects are popular here as pets
They are popular as pets here too. As these things go, they are pretty easy to rear.
@Dan From Smithville My daughter just found this scarab in her garden, unfortunately it's deceased. 99% sure it's a Fiddler Beetle. She's gonna grab her camera and try for some better pics, this was on her phone.
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Eupoecila australasiae - Wikipedia
That's spectacular! Thanks for posting it.@Dan From Smithville My daughter just found this scarab in her garden, unfortunately it's deceased. 99% sure it's a Fiddler Beetle. She's gonna grab her camera and try for some better pics, this was on her phone.
Eupoecila australasiae - Wikipedia
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Looks like a pretty good ID from picture comparing it.
I would love to have some of these in my collection. But that is probably true of all scarabs and related groups.
The pattern reminds me of Aboriginal art and I like the anecdote on how they got their common name, the markings do resemble a violin.
I see the violin. I like stories behind common names. They can vary from place to place too.
My favourite is the Rosella. The story goes that there were a large number of them at a place near Sydney called Rosehill so they were called Rosehill birds, which was too much of a mouthful to say and became Rosehillers then eventually rosella.
I like that. It is a good example of how names come to be and change over time. I used to have a book of local place names and was always fascinated on where they came from.
There is a small community to the south of me where I did my graduate work. It is a little town named Braggadocio. One story I read has it that there was local farmer with a daughter named Docio or Docia that he was always bragging on. I'm not sure that is the source, but I found it amusing.
This is much more interesting than the litany of "can you explain evolution to me" threads or the ancient science posts that say nothing and explain nothing.
I hadn't paid attention to the background, but what is that thing the beetle is on?
Had me baffled too, I thought it was a barbell weight but it's a plastic garden pot.
What I was seeing makes sense now. At first, I though coin, but then I realized it would be an enormous coin. One never before seen.
I wondered why the heck she had a barbell weight in the garden.
She's going to go out and measure it when she finishes eating oysters. If it's still there.
I've been thinking about patterns of color and shading on birds, lizards, beetles and even mammals. While the genetic origins may differ, it appears that many are serving similar functions depending on location and coverage (partial or complete). Breaking up a pattern is a common need for vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
Hmmm! Maybe there are jumping beans in the garden and that keeps them in place?
I've never seen one of those fiddler beetles and I was wondering earlier if that's because of their camouflage or if they're not very common. I can't find much about them other than the range.