Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: What is the coolest thing you've found in your garden? 41Jan 28, 2011 2:34 am I have read similar reports. Apparently the American Brown recluse produces a similar thing but so does going to Hospital. I wonder of the people with issues (white tail flesh disease) how many went overseas. 30% of people stepping off a plane from the states have golden staff on their luggage and skin. Many people can carry it with no adverse conditions but once a cut is produced severe enough the opportunity arises for third party infection. I am sure there is more to this, it just takes funding to find out. Re: What is the coolest thing you've found in your garden? 42Feb 01, 2011 2:37 pm Ah the brown recluse. I looked into this a while ago when writing a post for another forum that I mod on. They're very, very common in the US, yet bites are rare and treatable. There were some rumors a while back in the media about these spiders spreading through Australia. Fact is, they've been in southern Australia for over 20 years, have not extended their range and there are no bites recorded at all. The most interesting this was one study I read that took place in California, had found over 2,000 brown recluse spiders in the home of a family of 4. Not a single bite had occurred. http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=304 Re: What is the coolest thing you've found in your garden? 43Feb 04, 2011 3:25 am Take it with a grain of salt. The vector for bacteria that cause this is far and wide. There could be many carriers and even blow flies can have it. Garbage -> Blow fly -> spider 1 -> Spider 2 (the white tail hunts spiders predominantly) so there you have a sequence of potentials with no real conclusion on origin other than a potentially infected croissant... Re: What is the coolest thing you've found in your garden? 44Feb 10, 2011 4:30 am Finally got this guy. I have 1 more I am trying to get, a red one... Now I have a blue, a green, an orange with blue tip and there is a red one passing through. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ damselfly by -=Red=-, on Flickr I had 6 in garden all around a grevilea and paper bark. In one spot 2 males on either side of the female. All because of a pond... Re: What is the coolest thing you've found in your garden? 45Feb 10, 2011 9:50 am There's two reasons for the dragonflies and pond. They need the pond for the larvae and you have a good mosquito population!! The dragonfly nymphs eat the mozzie larvae and the adult dragonflies eat the adult mozzies. I think the increase in mozzie population is why we're all seeing so many adult dragonflies in our gardens this year. Anyway, another excellent picture Redman and it's a night one too! I really need a new camera Might mean those of you with fish in your ponds see a reduction in the number of fry this year though, as the dragonfly nymphs will go for them too. Re: What is the coolest thing you've found in your garden? 47Feb 10, 2011 1:31 pm Oh dear... no fry this year Redman? At least you get to take lots of lovely photos of the culprits so you can always remember them trying to look on the bright side... Re: What is the coolest thing you've found in your garden? 48Feb 10, 2011 10:50 pm A fracking big fat bag of cash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's what I found.... Re: What is the coolest thing you've found in your garden? 51Feb 18, 2011 2:21 pm Okay, I didn't get a pic of them, but am hoping someone will guess what they were from descriptions so I can look them up and check: Caterpillar - pretty hairy, mostly fawn coloured but with uniform black patches on each segement & black hairs that were larger coming from it. Obvious eyes. About 5cm in length and a little fatty. Seemed to be feeding on bramble leaves that I was removing, but might have fallen off either the mirror bush (soon to be removed) or the banksia spinulosa above (I could have knocked it off when trying to get to the bramble). Insect thing - looked like cross between a cricket and a shield bug i.e. cricket like legs at rear. Didn't mind me seeing if it would jump by touching it's back end, it just ignored me. Came off a sweet pitto my husband had removed. Was a grey-black colour all over and about 2m long. Small moth/butterfly thingie - orangey-fawn colour on wings, but seemed to have two sets? Top set held erect and against body, bottom set out like you'd expect. They were black around the edges and with a brighter yellow marking inside. Body was about 1cm, hairy, fawn coloured, though striped to the back end. Hmm, not much to go on is it? Re: What is the coolest thing you've found in your garden? 52Feb 22, 2011 4:51 pm So far the coolest think I have found is a motorbike frog living in our pond (Litoria moorei). I was washing the dishes after dinner and started complaining to hubby that the local kids were still riding their motorbikes in the park over our back fence (as they had been doing earlier in the day). He just laughed at me and told me it was a frog!! Apparently common as muck over here. Later I spotted him on a lily-pad in the middle of our pond. Super cute. Other fantastic things we found in the garden (only been in our house for 10 mths) are the avocado and mango trees. Kudos to the previous owner/gardener, as we live in Southwest WA!! Re: What is the coolest thing you've found in your garden? 53Feb 25, 2011 11:19 am Wow Kay, that sounds like a cool frog I sympathise with your confusion though - I've no idea what I'm hearing most of the time! 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