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Showing posts with label grasshopper. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 January 2015

Lake Lyndon and Porters Pass


Lake Lyndon was a spectacular colour today.


Lake Lyndon
Lake Lyndon near the West Coast Road




The blue flowers are vipers bugloss and the yellow are birdsfoot trefoil
Coral Broom

Baby Grasshoppers

A Large Grasshopper
A hairy colletid bee escapes into her burrow.





Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Porters Pass

I went to Porters Pass to look at the wildlife. There has been snow in the last couple of days, but it has melted quickly. The summer sun is hot when it shines.

The hillside above the pass
A Southern Tussock Grasshopper (I think)
Roadside plants
Coral Broom, Carmichaelia crassicaulis




Small Hover fly, Melanostoma fasciatum

Snowberry, Gaultheria sp.

White moss and lichen
Dracophyllum longifolium is the main plant in this area

Monday, 3 February 2014

Porters Pass Fauna


The moon and mountain flax
Dark coloured cicada, the most common that I saw. It had a sharp intermittent call.
A brilliant green cicada that really stood out.

A green grasshopper
A well camouflaged grasshopper


A fine striped grasshopper
A hairy grasshopper



Orbweb spider

Another orbweb spider. Abdomen only. The thorax is tucked under.