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Post by kan on Dec 3, 2015 14:44:16 GMT -8
Amazing pictures! Just a question though, should the last one be Melanitis leda? Yes. My mistake. You are correct. Thanks
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Post by kan on Dec 3, 2015 2:06:11 GMT -8
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Post by kan on Dec 1, 2015 6:36:07 GMT -8
Australian butterflies I have photographed in the past few years
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Post by kan on Dec 1, 2015 6:28:20 GMT -8
Australian butterflies I have photographed over the past few years
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Post by kan on Nov 26, 2015 15:23:35 GMT -8
Youll find nebulosus larvae will eat lamprima... some people said that to me before but I haven't seen such behavior. On the contrary, I found lots of nebulosus larvae and lamprima larvae happily living together inside the same log many times along with termites and black ants. The only thing I am sure is L3 eat L2 and L1 regardless of species.
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Post by kan on Nov 25, 2015 5:17:44 GMT -8
Brown Stag Beetle (Rhyssonotus nebulosus). In September when I first discovered them in rotten logs, I was so excited seeing this unique species. Nowadays, I realise they are almost everywhere. Wherever I found a rotten tree trunck, they can be found inside in large numbers.
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Post by kan on Nov 22, 2015 15:44:00 GMT -8
Fiddler beetle (Eupoecila australasiae) is a very beautiful and common beetle in Australia. Every summer, I could easily catch many of them on flowers. This year, I stumbled upon a lot of larvae and pupae inside rotten tree trunks while searching for golden stag beetles.
this is the lava
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hello.
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Post by kan on Nov 22, 2015 15:13:35 GMT -8
They are all freshly emerged and more are on their way
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Post by kan on Nov 22, 2015 4:46:52 GMT -8
From this moment on, I could tell, just by looking at the rotten log, whether it contained lamprim or not since my intuition had been honed through days digging
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Post by kan on Nov 22, 2015 4:41:04 GMT -8
The interesting thing was I didn’t find any male golden stag beetle initially. Maybe the males emerge later than the females or there are just more females than males. I have no answer to this question but I was bend on finding males. Lucky for me, a few days later, in a rotten log on the other side of the park, I found my first male lava.
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Post by kan on Nov 22, 2015 4:38:06 GMT -8
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Post by kan on Nov 22, 2015 4:28:28 GMT -8
I also found a lot of larvae of golden stag beetle
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Post by kan on Nov 22, 2015 4:23:40 GMT -8
One day later, a blue female also emerged
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Post by kan on Nov 22, 2015 4:20:15 GMT -8
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Post by kan on Nov 22, 2015 4:14:16 GMT -8
In a visit to a fellow beetle lover recently, I was told golden stag beetle larvae prefer certain kind of rotten trees and the key to finding them is to find the right type of trees. Armed with this new knowledge, I started poring over Google map of my local area and identifying potential parks and forest where their host trees could thrive. I singled out a few places and applied for a week’s personal leave from work to start my epic journey of capturing golden stag beetles!
I must have a knack of spotting the right rotten trees because I captured 4 golden stag beetle larvae in the first rotten tree trunk I dug. They are all females.
A few days later, a red female emerged
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