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Sunday, 4 March 2012

March 4, 2012

 This strange little bubble-blowing creature might be a type of Fruit Fly.
I have seen this behaviour before and found various interesting theories about it at
http://diptera.info/articles.php?article_id=16
Judging by the size of its abdomen, my guess is that it overindulged on pear juice!
 I was hoping that the fruit I put out yesterday might draw a bird or two, but they were too skittish to come on to the porch. A variety of smaller visitors did not mind my four legged family though.
We had 200mm of rain in 24 hours and there could be more tonight.

2 comments:

  1. Strange little creature Maggie. Yesterday, at a friend's house an Indian Mynah was popping in and out of the kitchen to peck at the catfood!

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  2. Quite amazing. I have a pic of a wasp blowing quite a big bubble. Hehehe!!!!

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