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hailsontherocks
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Re: Mysterious Goldfish?
« Reply #33 on: September 01, 2011, 05:31:55 PM » |
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Yes the rabbit is surely insane. He is bigger than a cat and I'm pretty sure he thinks he is a dog    At the moment he is chasing cats (that are curious enough to venture into his domain) around the backyard. Sigh, my animals just don't know how to behave, what with the dog-rabbit and the goldfish that's not. Ah, well it only became spring yesterday here, and it has been raining all week so the temperature is still only around 15-17 degrees Celsius (59-63 Fahrenheit), so maybe it is just too cold for him still. The temperature should be up around 86 Fahrenheit in a couple of weeks time. |
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Re: Mysterious Goldfish?
« Reply #35 on: September 01, 2011, 08:28:05 PM » |
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Nope no gnats apart from glow-worms but they hardly count. It's strange that we don't have them, seeing as before this land was populated it was home solely to birds, reptiles and insects! ...Oh and the bats, I forgot about the bats. Most of the unique birds have been wiped out (such as the huia, moa(that big thing), takahe, Haast Eagle(worlds largest eagle), NZ pelican, Whekau(laughing owl - we only have the morepork now; an owl the crys "More Pork") and a tonne of pengiun species to name a few) but the weird and wacky insects are still going strong regardless.
I have been bitten by weta, and ambushed by huhu beetles (they take a while to control their flight), but most insects are really nice - like our yellow and black striped ladybirds. It isn't too bad here though, not like Aussie; they have to shake their shoes in the morning incase of poisonous spiders or snakes! we only have two poisonous spiders, but both of them are recluse.
Where I live currently, they are trying to get the bat numbers back up to combat the cricket problem so they have put nesting boxes up for them through out the city - it's so cool! I had never seen so many crickets before I came down here - they just pile up against doors and windows everywhere! I don't mind them but it is a bit off-putting when they start flying into you/ past you in swarms!
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Re: Mysterious Goldfish?
« Reply #38 on: September 02, 2011, 07:13:21 PM » |
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Ah wild rabbits, we used to have them around all the time growing up as our house backed onto the bushes. they would hang out by the rabbit cages and we could even catch them sometimes.
Back then we also had a colony of cats, who kept the rabbit numbers down. Any rabbit caught off guard or was too slow met their demise. All bar the white ones; I owned a NZ white - which is a meat rabbit - who had bonded with our old irish setter. When the dog passed away something went wrong in that bunnies brain because all of a sudden SHE was the watch dog. The cats leaned quickly not to mess with her and it seemed the fear of her was translated to all white rabbits through the generations of cats.
That rabbit was a psychopath, she would only let me near hear (would attack every one else (think the monty python rabbit), and I would leave with gouges all up my arms and all) and even took on dogs and came out the victor. She was one messed up bun.
Interesting how the tables have turned though - domestic cat chases feral rabbit - to domestic rabbit chases feral cats.
NZ is renowned for its weird insects and birds so all is not lost, there are still a number of wacky things out there.
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Re: Mysterious Goldfish?
« Reply #39 on: September 02, 2011, 07:26:28 PM » |
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Love bugs - had never heard of them before. They are like mayflies, crazy little creatures. You get them out in the whopwhops out here, but not in the city - its too far away from the water.
Yeah the crickets are like them - real pain when it comes to cleaning up the mess they leave behind
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Re: Mysterious Goldfish?
« Reply #41 on: September 03, 2011, 11:56:41 PM » |
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Lucky for us Hamilton is anything but a tourist town. Even though its NZ's 4th largest city it's like a large sprawling suburb more than anything. On top of that it's the holidays when our crickets swarm so most people have left town for the beach batch or gone somewhere nice. The remaining people are left with a blanket of crickets across everything. It's definitely not as bad as your march flies - these guys only fly in the evening, when most people take shelter indoors. They pile up against doors and windows trying to get in - so its the pits for store owners because as soon as someone activates the sensor, in they come. They get into every nook and cranny you can imagine: in shelves, in the refridgerators, clothes, everywhere. I suppose the part which makes it nasty is the size of the little beasts - the size of your thumbs, easily. Well at least your love bugs arent large with hard exosceletons and at least our crickets don't increase our protein consumption  |
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Re: Mysterious Goldfish?
« Reply #43 on: September 05, 2011, 02:15:28 AM » |
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I agree with Goldiegirl, that is a lot of bugs you are putting up with, fantailer I dont think I could handle it.
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