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Hi Pine! How are we? Married with plenty of children by now??

Stephen - was thinking about that 8December conversation too....

Hi Stephen

Still around, still do a fair bit of walking - but yes very busy and there is a very dark cloud hovering over where I work....
Other than that very little to complain about
Best wishes for the festive season to everyone on here.

Wolf

wildlife of the maltese islands lists it as scarce

btw same colus found again this morning in the large garigue to the north of mgarr - the one which borders the gh.tuffieha road.
i only found one specimen however and i walked with my eyes fixed to the ground....

now if you guys like nature and happen to love Radiohead as well here is the treat of your life ......speakers on ovvjament

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY4APDrl66s

x'ghageb qed taghmlu!!!! - oh well lets face it i was --- pleased to see this as i never saw one before - the time i reckon was about 12.30 to one pm and the flies did not get to it but perhaps its because i was sweating bad at the time....!!! ha ha actually its pretty small and easily mistaken for ...

Hi guys
Been some time since I posted a pic and here's something interesting I found yesterday - it cannot be anything but colus hirodinosus methinks - spotted about four of them in all at Rdum Majjesa

never ever noticed this one before but it has a cute color
any ideas ? (that would have to be conchiolin i suppose?)

wolf

another swimming creature from wied incita this time....this one holds its tail up and is 5 to 6 cm long ...I am not sure this is the same thing as I had posted under topic "swimming creature at chadwick lakes"

any clues?

well done for your contribution to this book - I will certainly be buying it soon

boq - never noticed it Pine - too busy watching what the driver in front or behind ( with arm dangling out!!! - madonna x'vizzju mishut ) is trying to say or do or communicate !!

Conch - if its any consolation I still am unable to tell the difference - it is very difficult ...had same problem with common lellux actually

this is interesting......
http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal ... 4901&pid=1

first pic looks like the fortizza in sliema

My pleasure Conchiolin ...please note however it is illegal to trade buy or sell this sort of thing and I got this on very good authority

RB - It is a bit sad that only TMIS featured this - I would almost have expected Maltatoday (at least) to investigate ....

have you been to this site as it shud interest you - there is even one sample of a rare maltese mollusc

http://www.femorale.com.br
wolf

personally I do not think these are "accidental" fires - these are started deliberately most probably by either pranksters or people who may have a grudge against.....what really ? this phenomenon occurs on bigger scale say in portugal and italy so i suppose we have to have one or two sickos with th...

I echo Pine's thinking - beautiful pics by the way Conch.
Unfortunately what I wiitnessed today was not very pretty at all
....words tend to fail me in fact..

http://www.ramblersmalta.jointcomms.com/press.htm

oh I know the one in the photo is no cockroach but yes I do have an aversion to cockroaches since I am invariably the one who has to kill them when they show up at home...however comtec have done good job and havent seen one for some time now like pine i do not like the summer months so much - mostl...

Conchiolin ....the moment you post a close up of a wirdiena we will have to have a vote on whether to chuck you out or not....ha ha !!!

wolf

mwp - sorry for posting boris the spider in the wrong place - and yes you can remove it to wherever you think fits. actually my early morning tour of qammieh last saturday was very weird - driving down to gh tuffieha i was engulfed in very very thick mist and had to switch on fog lights (at7am) gh.t...

I apologise for being out of subject here but I could not resist posting this spider pic - anyone knows what it is ? shot this morning in the early banks of heavy mist we had in the north of malta - its from qammieh and Conch - no ticks attacked me this time !!

that explains it conch - because at qammieh i remember distinctly i was lying on the ground in a grassy place (actually almost a sort of wetland) so that is where the bugger got me ...and yes if you want to laugh some more it hurt bad !!

conch - if you are coming to the protest on monday timliniex kollha baqq ta !!! ( is that what a tick is ? ) seriously last time i was in qammieh i started to feel this pain on my tit and when i got home i realised there was a tiny (2-3mm) reddish spiderlike creature attached to my nipple - it was p...

but you positively love " hummejr " hux hekk Pine ? !!!!

nice topic MWP My top hate is galactites tomentosa ever since I walked all the way from Ramla to Marsalforn expecting treasures on the clay slopes and all I got was galactites tomentosa, galactites tomentosa, galactites tomentosa, galactites tomentosa, galactites tomentosa...and very little else. A ...

Pine what have you done to make MWP taqbizlu c-cinga ?

MWP - take things easy - dont let the heat get you

this must also be the first "serious" argument I know about a filago !!

what a cryptic answer pine !!!

I see you still sport immaculately manicured fingers...in future this forum will be a very good document on " how Pine's fingers aged gracefully over the years " you cud even start the topic...

cheers

it could also be filago cossyrensis which is a sub endemic but am not sure how to diifferentiate between the two. to be fair I have never seen f.pyramidata and have only come across f.cossyrensis very recently - and it was kindly identified for me

this is pic of cossyrensis