Termites,Termites, and .....More Termites

Wilko
No... not before , after it's started, next will be Beetles, little black ones that stink.... TRUE,... we'll get all kinds of bugs right through the wet, until we see the Dragon-Flies in big numbers, that will mean the end of the wet is near,
I have also seen swarms of Gidyea Bugs and large Stink Beetles at McKinley, Qld
Gidyea Bugs are carted away from shop fronts in Winton by the ute load.

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Thanks Doug ,
I have seen them in travels during the wet, but couldnt put a time line to it.

Cheers Wilko

You can keep them. Luckily I wont be up that way in the wet.

I also carry a piece of flyscreen that clips on to my rock guard across the front of the bull bar. I put it there mainly for grass but looks like it would be helpful for bugs. Just four pegs and its on.

BTW. Don't tell me we can say about Queensland - beautiful and bug free one day and totally bugged the next.




I bet they will take that word out but I believe that I have used it legitimatly as meaning full of bugs.

Doug
A few years back when I was coming back from Eildon to Yea [victoria] I came across bugs like what you'r calling stinky bugs. The trip of about 60 km was done travelling at 10 km as they were that thick that you could not see through your windscreen and had to stop every so often and clean your screen. When I arrived at Yea the entire streets and pavements were completly covered wih them. My white car was black, radiator was blocked and took about 10 minutes to clean the windscreen. The shops that were open were sweeping them out. This was in feb/march at night. They were worse then the locus plauges we get down here. Unfortunately I don't know what they were, may be some one can shed some light on what they were.

Murray

Murray
It was probably this one.

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The green carab beetle, also called the stink beetle, Calosoma schayeri. This beetle is a brilliant metallic green, It has a reputation for swarming in huge numbers at night around lights. The floodlights at a Queensland mine site attracted the beetles in plague proportions, so much so that they had to be shovelled up into 44 gallon drums. Brightly lit shopping centres are also frequently the target of these beetles. Worse still, when you pick them up they squirt a foul substance from the tail.

Doug
No they were drak brown and the size of a 5 cent coin
Murray

try yellow lights outside

the caravan parks use them and they work a treat from what i saw

Karen
I'll.............err...umm Save some for you, there's plenty to share,

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Doug, thanks for the offer, but I couldn't possibly ask you to do such a kind thing.............like with Christmas and all coming up, you will have so much more important things to do with your time...........lol.
You are such a gentleman though, wanting to do that for me.

Karen
:-)