Cockchafer Beetle Grub
Apr 28, 2013 22:21:14 #
About 1 inch long.
Sony A99 100mm macro Minolta lens F8 ISO 200 1/8 diff. flash Hand held
Sony A99 100mm macro Minolta lens F8 ISO 200 1/8 diff. flash Hand held
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Apr 28, 2013 23:03:14 #
Skewered & grilled, tastes just like chicken!
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Excellent detail, especially #4.
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Excellent detail, especially #4.
Apr 28, 2013 23:21:07 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Ah, "dirt shrimp".Skewered & grilled, tastes just like chicken!
Apr 28, 2013 23:25:45 #
Apr 29, 2013 00:31:28 #
I hear they eat em raw down under; too small to shoot.:-)
Apr 29, 2013 03:47:53 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Douglass the chicken tasting grub is a Witchetty not a beetle ,but a moth grub. The Cockchafer grub is a pest that eats roots.Skewered & grilled, tastes just like chicken!
and is destructive.Witchettiy grubs are found in central oz in and around Witchetty bushes. Cockchafers are all over oz. :D
Apr 29, 2013 20:53:38 #
Apr 29, 2013 21:11:23 #
tinusbum wrote:
Our North American June beetles are similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotinis_nitidanice shots,i think we have those here.tom
The cockchafer (colloquially called May bug, mitchamador, billy witch, or spang beetle): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer
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