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Drosera tracyi
This is another one of our carnivorous plants, in the sundew group. You can see the tiny hairs glistening with a sticky substance, designed to catch prey for food. The leaves are tall, thin, and light green, and the large stands of them are easily seen on the roadsides, shining with the light caught on the glands.
Robber flies catch their prey in mid flight. They then squeeze the unfortunate victim with their strong legs before inserting a proboscis into the prey and literally suck it dry leaving just a dry casing.
Messingham nature reserve, North Lincolnshire
It is quite common to see insect galls on Leucopogon plants.
This plant had two types, the "grass seed head" type above and an ovoid type below.
Insect galls start by the insect laying eggs on the host plant. The galls grow as plant matter controlled by the insect. After the galls are formed, the larvae develop inside until fully grown, when they leave. Insect gall insects are usually species specific. (ie only grow on one species)
Waynes world gives extra interesting information about galls.
I spotted these insect eggs on the frame of my french doors. They kinda look like Lacewing eggs, but I have never seen lacewing eggs so entwined..
He's a bit greener than this in real life. I likde the way his legs came out, though maybe I should work some black through the yellow to make the junction less severe between the two colours?
A beautiful female Encarsia citrina parasitoid wasp of the Aphelinidae family. Additional pictures below - note those distinctive wings.
From yesterdays rixton shoot :)
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