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Drawing: Jeffrey Sciberras1O species of insects, 1 species of arachnid and 1 specific species of plant are shown in this drawing.
the insects: Praying Mantis - Mantis religiosa
Clouded yellow - Colias crocea
Churchyard beetle - Blaps gigas
American cockroach - Periplaneta americana
Manson bee - Chalicodoma sicula
Fire bug- Scantius aegyptius
Drone fly- Eristalis tenax
Egyptian grasshopper- Anacridium aegyptium
Red veined darter- Sympetrum foscolombei
Pink winged stick insect - Sipyloidea sipylus
arachnid: Lobed argiope - Argiope lobata
plant : Maltese rock centuary - Cheirolophus crassifolius
I Drew this when i was 16 years old.
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Comments: 19
painting-with-light [2009-08-12 13:24:25 +0000 UTC]
Very good drawing, you should start drawing again
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floramelitensis In reply to painting-with-light [2009-08-12 13:32:36 +0000 UTC]
thanks, may be i should continue... some day
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Maltese-Naturalist [2009-08-12 10:47:45 +0000 UTC]
nice detail! we have stick insects in malta!?! cool!
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floramelitensis In reply to Maltese-Naturalist [2009-08-12 12:38:58 +0000 UTC]
stick insects are introduced here and find it very hard to survive our winters. the rest of the insects are common or native. i'm glad you like this pic
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Maltese-Naturalist In reply to floramelitensis [2009-08-12 15:14:45 +0000 UTC]
i do! So this stick inect is really rare? You wouldn't happen to know where hux?
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floramelitensis In reply to Maltese-Naturalist [2009-08-12 15:40:33 +0000 UTC]
well, i don't think they occur anymore unless someone has to introduce them every year. i forgot where they last occurred
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Maltese-Naturalist In reply to floramelitensis [2009-08-12 15:49:21 +0000 UTC]
at least, but i'd like to find one, i think they're cool but is it true we have an alien species of agama lizard?
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floramelitensis In reply to Maltese-Naturalist [2009-08-12 16:02:15 +0000 UTC]
they can be boring to keep, but otherwise no problemo indoors. i don't think we have an agama lizard wild, even so rarely in captivity.
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Maltese-Naturalist In reply to floramelitensis [2009-08-12 16:25:13 +0000 UTC]
ok, ghax in one of my books it said that we had some wild agamas
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floramelitensis In reply to Maltese-Naturalist [2009-08-12 16:57:11 +0000 UTC]
What book? this is weird!
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Maltese-Naturalist In reply to floramelitensis [2009-08-12 18:18:47 +0000 UTC]
uff, i can't find it, but i specifically remember reading about it, i even remember that there was a picture!
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floramelitensis In reply to Maltese-Naturalist [2009-08-12 18:32:02 +0000 UTC]
don't worry, i believe that you have it.
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Maltese-Naturalist In reply to floramelitensis [2009-08-12 18:37:33 +0000 UTC]
thanks i just have to find it, tyhe pic was of an agama on a hajt tas-sejjieh with rubbish behind it if i remember correctly
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floramelitensis In reply to Maltese-Naturalist [2009-08-12 18:50:55 +0000 UTC]
sounds interestings to see a wild Agama on Rubble walls. i bet its an escaped exotic pet!
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Maltese-Naturalist In reply to floramelitensis [2009-08-14 13:49:55 +0000 UTC]
aha i thik it said so, and recently i read in potamon that one was found at the marsascala dock yard near the cargo boxes
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floramelitensis In reply to Maltese-Naturalist [2009-08-14 17:25:54 +0000 UTC]
i guess that will be the cause too..
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