Wait, they have an anal area on their forewing?
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butterfly butts are weird.
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Why they couldn’t just say the posterior part of the forewing is beyond me. Maybe this is preferred terminology or something.
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A wing has a whole posterior side though, and to make matters worse it’s the inner margin when the wings are spread and the outer margin when they’re folded. All the veins have their own unambiguous names, and this is what they came up with for the one in the corner that folds over closest to the end of the abdomen. 
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From the South Australian department of transport, a new tunnelling animal discovered in Adelaide.
(And yes, this has a happy ending - traffic stopped, koala rescued and (post-vet checkup) returned to the wild.
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That is an amazing photograph. A cricket? How big is it?
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it appears to be a grasshopper, or locust to some, or what we down here call a lubber.
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Small I think it was one of these:
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My lunch companion yesterday. I think there are a pair nesting in the glimpsed brick structure which doesn’t seem safe.
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Maybe all the cynicals and people who profit with pain and despair are wrong…
Here is a preemptive soda as it is old news.
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There were insects a plenty in the pond at this garden we went to. Will post some of the bees, and a few others, but in the pond the dragonflies and darners or maybe damselflies were laying eggs, and some got stuck in the algae, I fished em out, and let them dry, they hung out for a while..
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