Botany Nerds Ahoy

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seeds started the topic in Saturday, 29 Jul 2023 at 1:40pm

Seems a keen interest for some, so why not.

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AlfredWallace Monday, 25 Nov 2024 at 7:03pm
Supafreak wrote:

Thought you might like this AW https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCo1dUMSy1I/?igsh=MTZpYzNmc25xZGRsNg==. It’s a better shot when you click over to instagram

Supafreak. Hi mate.

Thanks heaps, made my day.

Blue Throated Bee Eaters. ( Southern China,SE Asia, Phillipines and Great Sunda Islands.)
Here in Oz we have one species only. Merops ornatus Rainbow Bee Eater. AW

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AlfredWallace Monday, 25 Nov 2024 at 7:07pm
seeds wrote:

Wow that’s beautiful.
Once babies are grown the missus will have no use for him and give him the flick.

Now. Where have I heard that before ? AW

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AlfredWallace Monday, 25 Nov 2024 at 7:22pm

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Chauliognathus lugubris Green Soldier Beetle with a little guy from the Formicidae family trying to cart the big guy away for dinner with 200 mates. AW

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freeride76 Monday, 25 Nov 2024 at 11:01pm

AW, got your book mate.
Little mix-up between post office and swellnet office- no ones fault.

Thank you so much mate- very much appreciated.

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AlfredWallace Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024 at 7:05am
freeride76 wrote:

AW, got your book mate.
Little mix-up between post office and swellnet office- no ones fault.

Thank you so much mate- very much appreciated.

Freeride76. Hi mate. All good.
I’m happy it’s in your possession, it’s a great little reference book. All the best. AW

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AlfredWallace Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024 at 2:04pm

The benefits of planting local native flora, you get local native invertebrates.

Australian Eucalyptus Longhorn Phoracantha semipunctata

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blackers Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024 at 5:44pm

Cool, nice photo. What are the white droplets on its back, Alfred?

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AlfredWallace Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024 at 6:24pm
blackers wrote:

Cool, nice photo. What are the white droplets on its back, Alfred?

Blackers. Hi mate. How’s things ?

Well observed. The white droplets are from an Acacia implexa Lightwood Wattle which is a Summer flowering species, indigenous out this way. Produces massive amounts of flowers for a couple of months and then produces copious amounts of seed which the ants vacuum up and store in underground minute silos.

I’ve digressed, again. The liquid is dropping out of the tree tops especially on humid days and days after rain.
This species being a dry land one cannot handle too much liquid in its root plate area, so its sheds it in different ways, aerially is one , the other the most common one is foam coming out of the bark in several locations on the trunk and arboreal branches.
The Longhorn was jizzed on. AW

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blackers Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024 at 6:27pm

And we have the winner of today's internet...
"The Longhorn was jizzed on."
No context needed.
Cheers AW.

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seeds Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024 at 7:02pm

Hahahaha that’s funny
Jizz is the stuff of life!!

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AlfredWallace Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024 at 7:28pm
seeds wrote:

Hahahaha that’s funny
Jizz is the stuff of life!!

Seeds. Hi mate.
Remember that movie ‘The Jizz Sanger’ !!!!. AW

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seeds Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024 at 8:31pm

Whahhaa The Jizz Sanger
No I fecken don’t.
Haha that is funny

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AlfredWallace Wednesday, 27 Nov 2024 at 8:26am
seeds wrote:

Whahhaa The Jizz Sanger
No I fecken don’t.
Haha that is funny

You’d remember, that actor, Diamond Neil , he was the lead performer. AW