Friday 13 January 2012

...6 legs better

(With apologies to George Orwell)
Continuing from yesterday's macro theme, another favourite of mine, but this time with only 6 legs;  the Green Long-legged Fly (Austrosciapus connexus) is fairly common in SE Australia and well as being beautiful close-up (and having a wonderfully imaginative name), is also a good creature to have in the garden, eating pests such as aphids.  This guy (girl?) posed very nicely for me, and kept returning to the same sunny spot:

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