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by RB » Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:15 pm
Your beer is very "expensive" JP, what are those??
My (wild) guesses:
a) Australian pine, Casuarina equisetifolia
c) Cactus, but species - impossible?
I think I will be buying my own beer!!
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by jackpot » Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:12 pm
Very very wrong (both)!
Ohhhh- I forgot to say that I get a beer for each wrong answer!!!!

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by RB » Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:20 pm
Are those plants or animals??
If not cactus then caterpillar!
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by jackpot » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:13 am
good question

and as you can see- 2222c is correct!
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by D. Cilia » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:46 pm
Didn't know animals were possible as well!
#1 looks like reptile skin (gecko tail??)
#2 is some bony appendage like a cassowary's crest
#4: Cladonia sp.? no idea otherwise
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by jackpot » Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:24 pm
#1 looks like reptile skin (gecko tail??)
very good, it is a chamaeleon
#2 is some bony appendage like a cassowary's crest
no, not any appendage
#4: Cladonia sp.? no idea otherwise
no, not a lichen!
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by RB » Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:27 pm
Another vote for reptile skin on a) - looks like the colouring is correct for that lizard-like thing probably native to Australia whose name escapes me, it has a fat tail, and if not mistaken, venomous saliva. Ah yes! remembered - Gila Monster! Another wild guess of course! I think the beer is already taking effect, in advance!
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by D. Cilia » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:53 pm
are these all 'native' Maltese organisms? (the chameleon is not native but still...). I'd also like to know the name of that lepidoptera please.
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by jackpot » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:33 am
2222b is called in german language Kuckucksspucke- larvae of e.g. Philaenus spumarius- in Malta it might be another species or genus, and the Kuckucksspucke was found at the leaves commonly of Daucus carota
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by jackpot » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:36 am
2222d is Scleroderma verrucosum, the Earthball, found by Bernd.
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by jackpot » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:45 am
sorry- here is the pic
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by jackpot » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:37 am
2222b is called in german language Kuckucksspucke- how is it named in English and in Maltese?
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by Glimbo » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:30 am
In English - 'cuckoo spit' - g

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by jackpot » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:09 pm
hello- thanks a lot!

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by D. Cilia » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:44 pm
beżqa ta’ daqquqa kaħla? 
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by RB » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:57 pm
JP,. 2222b was something that crossed my mind, but putting it upside down made it impossible!
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by jackpot » Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:41 am
yes RB, I know, I am extremely miscreant, like a jackpot in Las Vegas

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by MWP admin » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:51 pm
Here is the responsible of the bubble spitter.
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by D. Cilia » Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:46 am
what a cute little critter

probably
Philaenus sp., difficult to identify though!
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by RB » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:36 pm
Yup almost cartoon like!
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