Monday, January 17, 2022

[Man From Ironbark]

Love your micrometer, Lorell. I might try digging out some pics of mine.
As for small things, try pulling one of these apart to service it, then managing to get it back together and working correctly.
http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.c...wk&AS_1775

YourGBH is absolutely gorgeous, Dave.
Such a satisfying glimpse of orange there, Grant
These are velvet ants or in reality wingless wasps. Something you defiinitely don't want to find with a bare toe digging in soft hot sand. These parasitise other wasps by tunneling into their nests and laying eggs on theirs. The females walk rapidly around on the sand with the posterior pointing skywards releasing pheromones. The males which have wings stop their work of pollinating flowers briefly to come down and mate.