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    Posted: 24 January 2009 at 00:46
Lotos of invertebrates aren't insects or spiders. So I'm not game enough to include these 'others' in the bugs and spider threads.

NZ has a large but cryptic collection of native creepy-crawlies. This was found under a log in bush near Rotorua.

Where am I?


I'll take a peak


Gosh it's bright out there


Perhaps I'll curl up again


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Great action series. Hope the camera had sufficient fps!

Aren't those fellas pretty common in NZ bush areas? See Pill bugs.

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Better still -- a Massey Uni take on such crustacea is here.
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Thanks- it's actually a millipede (Diplopod) rather than an Isopod, but it curls up in a 'pill form' just like slaters. If you look carefully at "Gosh it's bright out there' you can see that some segments are clearly associated with 2 pairs of legs.

While millipedes are common in NZ bush, this is a particularly large species- a giant among millipedes . I didn't need the Raynox for the shots- just the Tamron.





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As an aside- it's a pill millipede (Sphaerotheriidan). This order is only found in NZ, Australia (presumably in the same habitat as death-adders...sigh), South Africa & Madagascar.
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Dang!

That should teach me.
 



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Originally posted by brettania brettania wrote:

Dang!

That should teach me.


We all make mistakes . Crikey- I've made some real 'howlers' with messed up ID's before...

Still, while I'm a fairly average photographer, I know my creepy-crawlies quite well .

Now, just have to see if this thread takes off with other millipedes, centipedes, snails, crabs, starfish etc...

Extra points to the first photographer to post a Onycophoran (velvet-worm). I haven't seen one since the late 80s.
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How big is this thing? The DOF suggests it's quite large?
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It's about 4-5cm long.

Here's a common garden snail...


Nocturnal shot, if you hadn't guessed already
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One of my early efforts but I quite like this picture, though it was taken with the cheap little Sigma 28-80 with macro that started me out on bugs and things.
My husband took a picture of me taking this picture and it was not becoming!
Does this little creature qualify?

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I like the snail; he looks like he's taking a bow for his audience. Did you use a macro for these shots cthoniid?

Here is a few of a Witchety Grub:





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Just realised that a Witchety Grub is in fact an insect larvae! Oh well.
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Originally posted by topazlizz topazlizz wrote:

Does this little creature qualify?

I don't think so. It's an insect larvae.
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Lost in a Spider's Web
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