Spitters and swallowers
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An introduction on Spitfires, gum-loving babies of sawflies that are four-winged, stingless wasps of the woodlands is presented. They hatch in about four weeks from a package of around 20 eggs and are laid in a fine hole cut into a leaf's midrib by the jigsaw on the end of the mother's long egg-laying organ.
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2003
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Diamond drill for sore gums
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Some species of the Spotted Pardalote live under crusty scales called lerps that are remarkably good to eat. As a result of the bigger and more covetous lerp-lords attack's the paradalote's, life is divided between escaping the sore gums and drilling tunnels among the roots.
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2003
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Ring-picking tales
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The common ringtail is found in the rainforest to dry woodlands along eastern Australia and Tasmania. Its colour varies from grey to brick-red depending on the locality and weighs around one kg.
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2004
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