Botany Nerds Ahoy

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

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

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

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 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

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

Australian Eucalyptus Longhorn Phoracantha semipunctata

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

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

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

seeds wrote:

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

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

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

blackers wrote:

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

Blackers here is a photo of that jizz. Under the tree which is 23 years old, today there’s about 15 patches of it, roughly 80mm in diameter.
It’s very humid here today, 15mm overnight and it’s all stormy again today, heat, thunder and rain. More expulsion of water from the root zone.
A lot of noise, dog is shivering away in the dark of my bedroom. AW

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Wowsa! It clearly likes to share.
Yes dark and very wet in patches here. Mother of all downpours and now sunshine and rainbows.
Both dogs at my feet under the desk. Settled now the rain has stopped but there is more to come. I can see my lawn growing in front of my eyes.