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8th April 2013, 03:26 PM #61
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Your right .... Its not Patterson's Curse ....... so maybe its not feral ? It might be a legitimate ground cover ?
Regarding the thistle .... My place takes in a whole Mountain, and the biggest problem I have is lantana. The thistle only came in with the bulldozer and is not too bad ... and beautiful flower.
I don't have a macro, so just zoom in with the 300mm ...
I'm not a hobby farmer or anything, no dam, etc. Just like to leave it native as it mostly is ... its labelled 'Remnant Forest' by DERM. In theory not allowed to touch a single tree.
But dead ironbark burns well in winter .... Haahaa.
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8th April 2013, 03:44 PM #62
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8th April 2013, 04:01 PM #63
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Your right ..... and he has quite a history .... famous almost.
But how did you know that from a picture ?
Originally Posted by WIKI
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8th April 2013, 04:09 PM #64
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I used to live very close to Botany Bay.
Well I did, but I've taken pics of them myself.
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8th April 2013, 04:15 PM #65
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Yes I agree it is a beautiful flower, problem is they multiply faster than rabbits and before you know it you have your whole block infested with them. Originally Posted by Mutawintji
Don't know if you have any farmer neighbours, but if you do they will take a dim view of that.
Prevention etc....................
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9th April 2013, 08:23 AM #66
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Yes ... At the moment the thistle only grows on the house pad. So I will cut it and keep it mowed to prevent it seeding in future. Not that much of it really. Also have cottonweed ... but the Monarch Butterfly (from the USA) needs this noxious weed to breed ...
Sometimes ya just don't know at what point to interfere in life.
Also, FenceFurniture, if you read this. The other day I crashed thru some lantana to find a quite 'coffee spot' out of the wind. As I sat daydreaming I noticed a large Ant crawling up the lexen panel of the little truk. It was carrying something.
Observation showed it was carrying a liddle 'aphid' by its folded wings. The Aphid was in the Ant's long 'jaws'. I believe the ant 'farms' the 'aphid' for nectar/honey/sugar. The Ant/s were about 15-20mm long and .... amazing ... were trying to re-locate there farm/pasture where I had crashed thru.
I watched them. When they reached a broken tip of what had once been their farm ... they paused ... then leapt/jumped/flipped into the air ... with the Aphid ?? and they were landing on the bonnet of the little truk. This must be their method of locomotion within the dense lantana .... ??? rather than all the way down and back up another branch ???
Any idea on what this Ant is called ?
cool bananas ... Greg
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9th April 2013, 08:31 AM #67
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Couldn't say Greg. I always preferred to photograph things that either didn't move, or didn't have an opinion of me.
I went through a phase of photographing various bugs and beetles in a natural studio setting. This of course involved modelling lights, and those could fly were a giant PITA - I had to keep putting them in the fridge to "chill out", but once retrieved, the window of opportunity was pretty damn small with those hot lights! Got a few pics though (all unscanned trannies).
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11th April 2013, 12:33 PM #68
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Don't have many with me at the moment but here are some natives that will end up on my website...
All taken with my 'everywhere I go' Canon A620.
The first are Bonewood flowers, about 12mm across - the furry petals amaze me!
Second is Red Bloodwood.
Last is Wild Orange - crappy wood but amazing flowers
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31st July 2013, 08:52 PM #69
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1st August 2013, 04:28 PM #70
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great variety of pictures in this thread!
here is a couple of mine.
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1st August 2013, 06:00 PM #71
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Heres a few pics of a native orchid,from our area (Dendrobium species),known as 'rats tail',produces a mass of highly scented flowers that seem to last forever..MM
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