Below is a Celtis Leaf Beetle. 💜

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are a few things I'm interested in.

Eg a hawkmoth photo of mine.

#suburbanwildlifephotography
#greyhoundpets
#sighthounds
#australianinsects
#Sustainability

are a few things I'm interested in.

Eg a hawkmoth photo of mine.

I have so many questions about flies because there's just SO many of them in Australia:

Why do they always go round and round in the *middle* of the room?
How do they know where the middle of the room is?

How can they go so fast, relative to their size yet turn 90' without needing to slow down?

If their eyesight is so great, why don't they see enormous spiders in enormous webs?

What is so tasty about poo 💩 ?

Do they talk to each other or are there so many they just don't bother?

Why do they always die on window sills? Don't they smell the death?
#australianinsects

Oh yes just glow in the dark millipedes.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-15/bioluminescent-millipedes-discovered-nsw-bushwalkers/101769580

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I volunteered at a wildlife park a while back. One of the workers became extremely excited when she found this big bug. And then she goddam gifted it to me. Me…..a non bug type person! I was trying to be cool about it, so she’d think I was into bugs. Took it home and gifted it to my husband. 👀🙄 who is also not a bug person.

I think they’re called giant spiny leaf insects? People keep them as pets. Apparently. I ended up releasing it, as I’d been tasked with looking after the goldfish for a weekend one time and managed to overfeed them and they all died. ☹️

This is me gifting it to my husbands shoulder 😂 so I could take a photo.

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