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  1. 3rd May 2006, 11:39 PM #1
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    Default Ever wondered where the holes come from???

    Ever wondered where the witchetty's come from that put all the "features" in your timber???:confused: A while back I put a couple of witchetty's aside from a Sally wattle log I was sawing - thought I might end up with enough for a snack - and promptly forgot about it.
    A couple of months later I found the jar again and the bugger had metamorphosed into the egg-laying mutha we all need to watch out for:eek::mad:.About 5cm long for any one that's interested. Just realised that witchetty's must be members of the Lychtid borer family!?!?! - maybe someone can clarify that!
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    If you put the live grubs in a big container of dry radiata pine sawdust with a lid, The grubs will die and mummify without shrinking or distorting.

    Now thats probably worthy of Laws'ys useless information.
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    Why is it so?

    Are they fussy eaters?
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    Quote Originally Posted by echnidna
    If you put the live grubs in a big container of dry radiata pine sawdust with a lid, The grubs will die and mummify without shrinking or distorting.

    Now thats probably worthy of Laws'ys useless information.
    Somewhere I have mummified gecko that fell into a jar of very fine jarrah sawdust.
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    hmmmmmm.... is that how they preserve those insects they make brooches from? Yuck...... I'm serious.... saw in some magazine they wear them like jewelry.....
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    I have a feeling they might freeze dry them first.

    Seen some at The Flemington Market.
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