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Post by panzerman on Oct 14, 2012 11:16:45 GMT -8
This is what I do, from April 1st-end of November... This pays for the hobbies..... John  Attachments:
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Post by simosg on Oct 14, 2012 11:45:01 GMT -8
John, nice to see you back. What are you doing the rest of the year?
Hannes
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Post by panzerman on Oct 14, 2012 16:14:46 GMT -8
Hannes: Thanks! Not much time for hobbies, working sunup too sunset, but now it is dark at 6:30, so have some free time. From December too end of March, I have holidays...lots of time for snowmobiling, hiking with my Rottweiler(Loki) butterflies, saturnidae, and my number one passion, gold coinage,just won a perfect FDC gold dukat dated 1697 Germany(Hohelohe-Neuenstein) Count Wolfgang Julius from Kunker Auction! John |
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Post by dertodesking on Oct 17, 2012 12:39:49 GMT -8
Hey John, Welcome back! Glad to see business has been good...well done on getting a new coin for the collection but more important...any new rare swallowtails?  Simon |
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Post by joee30 on Oct 17, 2012 16:37:36 GMT -8
here i am in Australia 3 weeks ago, up in the Mountains of Ballina New South Wales. i was catching Graphium macleayanus and Ornithoptera richmondia. i happen to stumble across a snake that i couldn't resist myself from picking it up haha Is that a Morelia or carpet python? Those are nice snakes. I'm in the military, so I have some time to dedicate to collecting and the hobbies. I've bought some beetles the past week and have been working on a parnassius collection. At some point, I will need to start trading for specimens from Australia and New Zealand. |
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Post by lucanidae25 on Oct 17, 2012 17:18:10 GMT -8
It's a small diamond python (Morelia spilota) very common here. I've seen them all the time. There's no native snakes in New Zealand. ;D Here's a bigger very close to 3 meters Morelia spilota. Attachments:
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Post by panzerman on Oct 17, 2012 18:22:23 GMT -8
Thanks Simon, I was actually far more active in numismatic auctions. That is my fav. hobby. In papilionidae, I only added an AI chilasa carolinensis male, parnassius staudingeri workmanni male, parn. charltonius anjuta male, papilio garamas baroni M+F. John |
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Post by lepidofrance on Oct 18, 2012 9:06:23 GMT -8
Bowral NSW : do you mean that this black snake is non poisonous and eats  the poisonous Copper Head Snake ? Sorry ! I know few about australian snakes (only heard about taipan and death adder).  |
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Post by steve on Oct 18, 2012 13:56:45 GMT -8
The black snake is mildly poisonous ( there has only ever been one death attributed to this snake and that was in the mid 1800's). Yes it eats other snakes, and frogs and lizards. So it's better to have one of these in the garden than having Copper Heads as we usually do. This one moved in during winter and we first saw it in August this year. It's outside the kitchen window !
We haven't seen any other snakes here since it arrived !
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This is currently in our back garden in Bowral NSW, at least it keeps the Copper Head Snakes away
