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27th November 2014, 09:23 AM #31SENIOR MEMBER
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Close Berlin, the dog is a maremma (stock guard dog, a mountain dog originally bred in the mountains of Italy), the snake is a tiger snake I found underneath a piece of roofing iron lying on the ground, so I took it down to the creek and let it go to meet other tiger snakes and hopefully breed ( I do a bit of snake handling from time to time).
How's that Mark?
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27th November 2014, 04:36 PM #32SENIOR MEMBER
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Of course you've got to have a shed. And fire fighting potential, oh and another site for another shed of course.
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27th November 2014, 07:31 PM #33SENIOR MEMBER
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Right, now this is a call to arms. How about some pics of your garden, how about some information about who you get your seeds from, what about some nifty ideas about growing your plants, seed saving, weed suppression, pest control, what sort of chooks you keep (all part of the garden) and ducks etc. Anything to do with gardening, not just vegies.
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27th November 2014, 11:51 PM #34
You asked for it and here it is.
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28th November 2014, 10:58 AM #35SENIOR MEMBER
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Thanks, ubeut and congrats Berlin for starting the ball rolling.
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28th November 2014, 09:24 PM #36Senior Member
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29th November 2014, 02:01 AM #37
pest control
I have lots of lizards here that help with ground beetles, cockroaches and the larva of somesort of a beetle, possibly the African Black Beetle, I have to dig them up for them tho
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29th November 2014, 09:18 AM #38
Thanks Neil!
...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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29th November 2014, 09:24 AM #39
I watched a team of skinks mopping up after a termite swam at our place the other day. They're very effective. I haven't got to the point of hand feeding them though.
...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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29th November 2014, 11:43 PM #40
Mud duab wasp
Another thing we have about here is the mud dauber wasp, at least a couple of species, when I see them they are either building a cocoon or provisioning it with caterpillars and/or spiders in readiness to lay an egg, I often see them flying in and around the leaves of various plants looking for prey.
Here's a cocoon I inadvertantly happened to break just on completion of being sealed up, it was in amongst some timber I was moving.
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This one is filled with various jumping spiders, all different colours and shapes, I'd rather see it filled with caterpillars but jumping spiders were on the menu on that day.
Just in this one cocoon there is such diversity in the spiders, look closely at the one with what look like feathers for palps, the whitish cylinder is the egg of the wasp, ordinarily this will hatch and then feed on the spiders which are in a suspended state, I wonder what we could learn from whatever it is the wasp injects into the spider to stop it going off.
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30th November 2014, 05:21 PM #41SENIOR MEMBER
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Great photos, Pete, can't wait to see the next lot of photos.
Maybe we should start calling you the lizard whisperer.
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1st December 2014, 01:53 PM #42SENIOR MEMBER
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The vegies are starting to reach for the sky and the bees are loving it. The self seeded dill is dwarfing the dwarf fruit trees, the corn patch has pumpkin varieties as a living green mulch and I recently planted climbing beans next to the corn. I've just bandicooted some Pink Eye spuds, raided the Broad Bean patch and reduced the weight of the bramble berry vines.
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2nd December 2014, 12:39 AM #43
That's one of the things I miss now that I'm in Qld, the berry and stone fruits, I don't miss the cold tho
Here's a few pics of some life in the sunflower patch
blue banded bee.jpglacewing eggs.jpgpraying mantis.jpgspiky legged jumping spider.jpgyellow jumping spider.jpg
From left to right
The little dot at the top center of the seed head is a blue banded bee, these are one of the solitary types (don't live in a hive) they are also very very quick and dart here and there looking for just the right flower at the right stage of flowering. I don't see these too often. There is also a grasshopper there as well.
Lacewing eggs, another predator of pests, once they hatch! I see these often
A green praying mantis. Often.
Another of the many variety of jumping spider complete with spiky legs, this one has been in the same flower for the last few days. not seen often.
A yellow jumping spider. Not seen often.
Of the critters above the thing that always fascinates me is where do the ones that I generally dont see come from
Are they waiting somewhere for somebody to grow some sunflowers?
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2nd December 2014, 10:32 AM #44SENIOR MEMBER
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Wonderful what pops up when you don't use pesticides.
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6th December 2014, 08:19 PM #45SENIOR MEMBER
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some home shots, some alpine shots
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