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Wētāpunga ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 02 September 2007 Country: New Zealand Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Posts: 6831 |
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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 ![]() Indecision ![]() |
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brettania ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum factotum Joined: 17 July 2005 Country: New Zealand Location: Auckland Status: Offline Posts: 20649 |
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Great action series.
![]() Aren't those fellas pretty common in NZ bush areas? See Pill bugs. Edited by brettania - 24 January 2009 at 01:12 |
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brettania ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum factotum Joined: 17 July 2005 Country: New Zealand Location: Auckland Status: Offline Posts: 20649 |
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Better still -- a Massey Uni take on such crustacea is here.
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Wētāpunga ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 02 September 2007 Country: New Zealand Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Posts: 6831 |
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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 ![]() |
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Wētāpunga ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 02 September 2007 Country: New Zealand Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Posts: 6831 |
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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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brettania ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum factotum Joined: 17 July 2005 Country: New Zealand Location: Auckland Status: Offline Posts: 20649 |
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Dang!
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Wētāpunga ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 02 September 2007 Country: New Zealand Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Posts: 6831 |
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We all make mistakes ![]() 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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dilettante ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 02 April 2007 Country: United Kingdom Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 2981 |
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How big is this thing? The DOF suggests it's quite large? |
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Wētāpunga ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 02 September 2007 Country: New Zealand Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Posts: 6831 |
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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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topazlizz ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 16 April 2008 Country: Sweden Location: Tibro Status: Offline Posts: 756 |
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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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Zack ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 23 June 2006 Country: Australia Location: Sydney Status: Offline Posts: 475 |
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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?
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Zack ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 23 June 2006 Country: Australia Location: Sydney Status: Offline Posts: 475 |
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Just realised that a Witchety Grub is in fact an insect larvae! Oh well.
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Stoney ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 11 January 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Posts: 462 |
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I don't think so. It's an insect larvae. |
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Lost in a Spider's Web
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