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Stuarti, RedDragons and Bird mimics?

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Posted by: gerryg at Sun Jul 29 15:37:42 2012   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by gerryg ]  
   

A little on topic and a little off topic this time around.

My demented stuarti is coming along nicely, as are the other four... no longer musking or biting... still a little flighty when first being picked up but he settles down within half a minute or so. Frequent, short handling sessions seems to have done the trick. I have noticed though that unlike the other few milk species I've been keeping these guys seem to be growing well in length but not in girth. Skinny little things they are.



The Red Dragonfly (Sympetrum obtrusum) I was determined to get pictures of this weekend.



And one of the finest examples of convergent evolution... at least imo... a Hummingbird moth. It came along moments after my taking pictures of the Red Dragonfly. I love seeing those things... it is amazing just how much they are like hummingbirds, even a fuzzy little tuft at the end of the abdomen that looks like tail feathers.



Gerry


   

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