Hi All
A friend at work has asked me what this ugly thing is, but I got no idea.
Anyone know? (hope my photo skills are still working)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y125/muschee/whats%20this/NewImage.jpg
not sure what it is.
Hi VG thanks for havin a look anyway
I think it’s a mole cricket, but I’m not sure. :)
its ok
Is it a cricket?
colliewa said:
Is it a cricket?
It looks like one doesn’t it. But a really weird one.
Yep its a mole cricket
http://www.faunanet.gov.au/wos/factfile.cfm?Fact_ID=141
Not sure what variety though
go back about three pages in the “by topic” threads and under the topic ‘friend or foe’ you will see the same creature – its a mole cricket – potentially a foe but normally not a problem.
pepe said:
go back about three pages in the “by topic” threads and under the topic ‘friend or foe’ you will see the same creature – its a mole cricket – potentially a foe but normally not a problem.
Thanks Pepe you are correct. I wonder if it’s due to certain time of year.
We have plague proportions of portugese millipeds again :( now that we’ve had some good rains.
Muschee said:
pepe said:
go back about three pages in the “by topic” threads and under the topic ‘friend or foe’ you will see the same creature – its a mole cricket – potentially a foe but normally not a problem.
Thanks Pepe you are correct. I wonder if it’s due to certain time of year.
We have plague proportions of portugese millipeds again :( now that we’ve had some good rains.
sounds like you’re south aussie – a millipede predator is available. i have contacted the retailer and they want $100 for a sachet of the parasitic nematode that occurs naturally here and will control the portugese pest. the pest itself is slowly dwindling in numbers and if you want to hasten the process you buy a sachet. in ten years the pest will be under control but i’m inundated after rain and use the blue snail pellets to control them.
the mole cricket might be taking advantage of all the weakened lawns – i believe it is a lawn dweller.
pepe said:
Muschee said:
pepe said:
go back about three pages in the “by topic” threads and under the topic ‘friend or foe’ you will see the same creature – its a mole cricket – potentially a foe but normally not a problem.
Thanks Pepe you are correct. I wonder if it’s due to certain time of year.
We have plague proportions of portugese millipeds again :( now that we’ve had some good rains.
sounds like you’re south aussie – a millipede predator is available. i have contacted the retailer and they want $100 for a sachet of the parasitic nematode that occurs naturally here and will control the portugese pest. the pest itself is slowly dwindling in numbers and if you want to hasten the process you buy a sachet. in ten years the pest will be under control but i’m inundated after rain and use the blue snail pellets to control them.
the mole cricket might be taking advantage of all the weakened lawns – i believe it is a lawn dweller.
Evening.
I must have a different millipede then in Vic.
Billion’s of the thing’s, they used to drop off the wall’s and I’d vacuum them up and many more in the yard.
I say ‘used’ to..because then along came chook’s and I haven’t seen one since.
Are the portugese one’s unpalatable for chook’s ?
I must have a different millipede then in Vic.
Billion’s of the thing’s, they used to drop off the wall’s and I’d vacuum them up and many more in the yard.
I say ‘used’ to..because then along came chook’s and I haven’t seen one since.
Are the portugese one’s unpalatable for chook’s ?
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evening HP
i think they are mainly in SA.
if the one you have is brown then that is the native one.
this portugese one is black
oh – and to answer the whole question i don’t think chooks eat them
(but i could be wrong on all acccounts)
i don’t think chooks eat them
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Butcherbirds do.
pepe said:
oh – and to answer the whole question i don’t think chooks eat them
(but i could be wrong on all acccounts)
Gees mine do..I looked them up and yes mine are the black ones. CSIRO site.
I actually have one forever entombed in the top clear resin layer of my polished concrete floor.
They are all across southern Oz from Sydney to Perth.
Happy Potter said:
pepe said:
oh – and to answer the whole question i don’t think chooks eat them
(but i could be wrong on all acccounts)
Gees mine do..I looked them up and yes mine are the black ones. CSIRO site.
I actually have one forever entombed in the top clear resin layer of my polished concrete floor.
They are all across southern Oz from Sydney to Perth.
thanks for doing the research.
bad news – although i must get the name of your breed of chooks – or stop feeding mine so much. I feed my chooks wheat, scraps, green feed and mash every day and they still have the audacity to ask for more LOL.
pepe said:
Happy Potter said:
pepe said:
oh – and to answer the whole question i don’t think chooks eat them
(but i could be wrong on all acccounts)
Gees mine do..I looked them up and yes mine are the black ones. CSIRO site.
I actually have one forever entombed in the top clear resin layer of my polished concrete floor.
They are all across southern Oz from Sydney to Perth.thanks for doing the research.
bad news – although i must get the name of your breed of chooks – or stop feeding mine so much. I feed my chooks wheat, scraps, green feed and mash every day and they still have the audacity to ask for more LOL.
Morning Pepe and lurkers.
Can you let the chook’s out Pepe?
I only have the Isa Brown’s , and on the day’s I let them out for a forage they don’t get fed as much..not that they arn’t hungry, but they are so busy going through the lawn and mulch’s that they don’t notice me with the feed bucket.
I haven’t let them out recently because I have lettuce growing unprotected from them, so it will be interesting to see if any milipedes re surface. I will let them out again in a few week’s, when the bug population build’s up.
Mine are gone off the lay too atm. Good time to worm them.
Can you let the chook’s out Pepe?
I only have the Isa Brown’s , and on the day’s I let them out for a forage they don’t get fed as much..not that they arn’t hungry, but they are so busy going through the lawn and mulch’s that they don’t notice me with the feed bucket.
I haven’t let them out recently because I have lettuce growing unprotected from them, so it will be interesting to see if any milipedes re surface. I will let them out again in a few week’s, when the bug population build’s up.
Mine are gone off the lay too atm. Good time to worm them.
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my chooks get big yards to run around in. how do you worm them ?
i just put crushed garlic in their water.
pepe said:
Can you let the chook’s out Pepe?
I only have the Isa Brown’s , and on the day’s I let them out for a forage they don’t get fed as much..not that they arn’t hungry, but they are so busy going through the lawn and mulch’s that they don’t notice me with the feed bucket.
I haven’t let them out recently because I have lettuce growing unprotected from them, so it will be interesting to see if any milipedes re surface. I will let them out again in a few week’s, when the bug population build’s up.
Mine are gone off the lay too atm. Good time to worm them.
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my chooks get big yards to run around in. how do you worm them ?
i just put crushed garlic in their water.
Poultry all wormer drops in their water for 24 hours. I discard any egg’s for several day’s.