[Evoncalabbalo]

I'll stick my "unknown, please can you help" pics here.
Feel free to add yours if you like.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjjoke/6907104556/


IMG_5890 by justjjoke, on Flickr

[pipojambo]

I'll stick my "unknown, please can you help" pics here.
Feel free to add yours if you like.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjjoke/6907104556/


IMG_5890 by justjjoke, on Flickr

If they had been white I would have said Lerps. We have scale insects that build a very similar thing but always white.

[Evoncalabbalo]

I'd have said the same thing, Wataday.
Now I'm on the internet hunting game ... trying to do bit myself for a change
I have checked this ... http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/__data/asse...ps_Insects.pdf

and it seems I'm on the wrong track ... although I know those kinds of papers aren't meant to cover the whol lot of the things ... will try again ... there do seem to be ants in abundance, but none on that tree (beyond the occasional wanderer)
I hunted but couldn't find any more examples of that one ... maybe the colour is a temporary thing?

[warrgazur]

Might be a gall.

[Evoncalabbalo]

Might be a gall.

It might be.
I should have looked more carefully and I don't think I can find them again now.
What a good lesson to GPS EVERYTHING that's interesting. It is no time to do and could have been useful.
My _impression_ was that it was sitting on the top of the leaf layer, but I couldn't honestly say why I thought that, now, excpt that I was looking at a range of galls at that spot , ie carefully on both sides of the leaves, and didn't spot anything on the underside of these. Not sure that is significant though.

[Quick$bux]

I reckon it could be a lerp. Here's a pic from Alex Wild (Myrmecos) of a fuzzy Glycaspis. Wrong colour, but it looks more like your pic than the drawings in the PIRSA pdf.

[Evoncalabbalo]

I reckon it could be a lerp. Here's a pic from Alex Wild (Myrmecos) of a fuzzy Glycaspis. Wrong colour, but it looks more like your pic than the drawings in the PIRSA pdf.

ooooh, yes!
closer and closer ... only one day left here.
I'll keep looking.

[RooxiaNof]

No help here though I looked pretty hard.

People would have found the yellow Glycaspis picture and I do think it is a Glycaspis spp. producing a lerp which maybe clouded my search.

[Evoncalabbalo]

Thank you (again) nut

[pipojambo]

You may have discovered a new species, send your pic off to the museum.

[Evoncalabbalo]

[GeraldCortis]

Might be a gall.

that I doubt..

[Evoncalabbalo]

I have sent it off to the Museum and will let you know if I hear back from them.
Thanks for all the ideas.

Next Mystery is this one.

I have made this the medium size image as there is a pupae looking thing at the top which is even tinier.
The page at which there is some discussion and where you could choose the size image you want is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjjo...n/photostream/

[Quick$bux]

It's a bit difficult to tell the scale from that pic. So here are some random thoughts...

That looks like a little spider at the top. Do you think it might be an egg case of a two-tailed spider? There's a picture here. (Click on the image to embiggen it.)

Some lacewings lay stalked eggs, but they're often in groups. (And are very small.)

That neat hole might have been made by the young whatever emerging or by a parasitoid wasp on its way out. (You see those in praying mantis oothecae.)

[GeraldCortis]

I have sent it off to the Museum and will let you know if I hear back from them.
Thanks for all the ideas.

Next Mystery is this one.

I have made this the medium size image as there is a pupae looking thing at the top which is even tinier.
The page at which there is some discussion and where you could choose the size image you want is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjjo...n/photostream/

jj you obviously didn't read my message showing you that you can choose either html or BB code in the same flickr window. You'd use html to post the same link to the holiday forum.. You'd use BB code for this forum.


Similar story for the link to all sizes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9955998...n/photostream/

[Evoncalabbalo]

jj you obviously didn't read my message showing you that you can choose either html or BB code in the same flickr window. You'd use html to post the same link to the holiday forum.. You'd use BB code for this forum.


Similar story for the link to all sizes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9955998...n/photostream/

NO, I obviously DID read your message but still forgot.

Now, as well as that spidery thing to ID I have another.
this Parsons Band Orchid (sometimes known as Rabbit Orchid) has a disticcctively different basal leaf from all the othersaround it.
I am guessing that it is just the result of having been enclosed by something that didn't allow it to open flat early on, but am checking. I am now told to photograph the basal leaf and the flower for orchids in case of minor differences that matter and ought to be tracked, hence my interest.


IMG_6111 by justjjoke, on Flickr

Here is the flickr page so peole can go to the bigger image if wished with the accompanying flower.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjjo...n/photostream/

Today I am GPSing their spot AND marking the flowering date ... they seem to be a good 10 days, even a couple of weeks earlier than last year and I had thought last year's early. Without it written down though, it's useless info

[GeraldCortis]

NO, I obviously DID read your message but still forgot.

Now, as well as that spidery thing to ID I have another.
this Parsons Band Orchid (sometimes known as Rabbit Orchid) has a disticcctively different basal leaf from all the othersaround it.
I am guessing that it is just the result of having been enclosed by something that didn't allow it to open flat early on, but am checking. I am now told to photograph the basal leaf and the flower for orchids in case of minor differences that matter and ought to be tracked, hence my interest.


IMG_6111 by justjjoke, on Flickr

Here is the flickr page so peole can go to the bigger image if wished with the accompanying flower.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjjo...n/photostream/

Today I am GPSing their spot AND marking the flowering date ... they seem to be a good 10 days, even a couple of weeks earlier than last year and I had thought last year's early. Without it written down though, it's useless info

excellent work and attention to detail

[Evoncalabbalo]

It's learning to observe properly (ie scientifically) that I am after now

Actually I dont want to post the pics themselves in the thread. I was thinking that only those interested could then look, without cluttering it up too much.
Not sure.
What do people think?

[Siliespiriulk]

It's learning to observe properly (ie scientifically) that I am after now

Actually I dont want to post the pics themselves in the thread. I was thinking that only those interested could then look, without cluttering it up too much.
Not sure.
What do people think?

I think the images in the threads here are wonderful. I wouldn't necessarily follow a link but often I am interested after I see the photo itself. Scribbly needs lots of photos and probably lost out the most when the ABC forum stopped images being posted. As they are linked images, they don't use up server space and add so much to discussion.

I'm not the best person to comment on natural phenomena (being a technophile and engineering type) but as a transient visitor here, the photos make the place

[Evoncalabbalo]

Thanks ilago.
That's good enough for me
How's this for a toddler all tantrummed out and pleading for (m)other to pick it up?

*crosses fingers*

IMG_6135 by justjjoke, on Flickr


nup ... oh well, I"ll enjoy other peoples' pics