Tuesday, December 20, 2011

111220 Venus Drive

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Ivan spotted some backswimmers.


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Kenny spotted this Rove beetle fondling some gooey stuff.


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Beetle pupa?


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Spiky caterpillar.


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Fascinating lump that seemed to be made of regular sized leaf fragments.


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Scale insect (with young?), quite large at about 6 mm long.


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Reduviidae.


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Parasitic wasp.


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Polyrhachis queen?


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Cockroach.


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Phasmid.


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Isopod on the phasmid.


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Tiny fly on the phasmid.


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Centipede. The rear half looks distended.


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More strange coiling behavior by this sort of worm (previously seen coiled around a dead salticid).


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Harvestmen. Venus drive has a pretty high opilionid diversity, at least 5 different species.


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Looks like Heteropoda tetrica with ant prey.


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Hui Lian spotted this salticid with a very long and fat abdomen.


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These look like crab spiders (Thomisidae).


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This orb weaver built a rather large web, about 2 m tall. The underside has a red spot in the middle.


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Tiny frog (12 mm) spotted by Hui Lian.


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Cnemaspis kendalli. Cute smile.


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Gekko monarchus.

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