Saturday, April 7, 2012

NAMADGI STICK INSECT


Just spent the afternoon and night setting up 3 heat and motion sensing cameras around Smoker's Flat in Namadgi. The plan is to leave them there for two weeks. The weather was simply delightful and the evening crisp and still. So still in fact that the return journey on the full moon lit trail was a little eerie. Not a sound.

Earlier in the day we met up with an interesting stick insect at the Smoker's Trail car park. First noted on my mate's hat it went on to display its blue wings and when released showed just how well it could meld and disappear amongst a nearby group of twigs.

It interested me enough to want to know its name but alas Google these past few hours has been unable to help me. I took some video...


Map

View Larger Map

-
-
Labels: , ,

2 comments:

  1. Le LoupApril 8, 2012 at 10:41 AM

    Lovely fellows these, I occasionally find a stick insect on me when outside. Good images.
    Keith.
    http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com.au/

    ReplyDelete
  2. JudeApril 14, 2012 at 9:44 AM

    Great little vid Dave. I love the way you assume it's a 'him', so funny. We have a saying in our house for those moments: "He...OR she..." LOL

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Dingo Pup filmed at Glenbrook Blue Mountains

A night spent at the Euroka campground at Glenbrook in the Blue mountains NSW. It sparked a little controversy with some thinking it was a ...

  • FOLLOWING THE GUDGENBY RIVER
    The Gudgenby River is a tributary of the Murrumbidgee River in the south of the Australian Capital Territory. With it's headwaters in t...
  • CANBERRA UNDER SNOW
    I read a thread on a local forum suggesting that it was a ridiculous idea it being possible to ever snow in Canberra. Simply not the case. ...
  • CANBERRA'S CAVES
    A little known fact is that Canberra is built on the top of numerous limestone caves... In 1821 Charles Throsby (1777 - 1828) (bio here ) ...
  • TIME TO FIX THE WALL
    Updated  5/10 ----------------------------------- Today I took the bike for a ride to Tharwa and visited the cemetery at Cuppacumbal...
  • JERVIS BAY TERRITORY
    Near Nowra on the south coast of New South Wales is the harbour of the Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay. Captain James Cook (1728-1...
  • WESTBOURNE WOODS
    Canberra's first arboretum (info here ) was established at Westbourne Woods in the Canberra suburb of Yarralumla. In May 1913 horticult...
  • AUSTRALIAN YABBY VIDEO
    Something left field... The common yabby (Cherax destructor) is a freshwater crustacean that is common in waterways, reservoirs and farm ...