December 18, 2012

A little Crab Spider that has not had a lesson in blending in with the background!

In comparison, the Yellow Lantana looks like a hUge flower, when in fact they are quite tiny..

Yellow Lantana is thought to be non-invasive, because it is sterile. 

People have said that in time it will swap genes with nearby invasive Lantana.

Fortunately there are no other Lantana plants around.

The plant has decorated my fence for 6 years, attracted many insects

and so played a major roll in my daily photo journal!

December 17, 2012

The flash accentuates the hairy face of this fly.

Overlapping black hairs down the centre of the head creates the illusion that the eyes 

are held together with cross stitching!

December 16, 2012

Giving me the eye

This Cricket-like creature spent quite some time in the cold-room at the boarding school!

Poor thing probably came in with the vegetables.

I photographed a similar one in 2010 that has a top spot in the title banner of this blog.

The banner was made by my friend Rodney Field with photos that he downloaded from my Facebook page.

Rodney lives on a yacht in Botany Bay with a deaf canine companion called Penny. 

Their interesting website The Dog Paddler is well worth a visit.

(I am quite proud of the fact that I managed to figure out how to post links on my blog ☺)