Not to upset the gardeners among flickr viewers... something different from me - a handful of Green Shield Bug nymphs in their third instar.
Shield bugs - Nezara viridula - are also widely known as Stink Bugs an appellation from their pungent chemical defense against predators.
This group on a very late season tomato captured with the hugely underrated Fujinon XF 60/2.4 Macro.
I'm not a macro shooter but I had it with me for use as short tele when I saw these little blighters while bandicooting© a vacant cottage garden.
Fuji X-T2, XF 60/2.4 R Macro, 1/55th sec at f/11, ISO 400
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This is Australia's only deciduous tree. Nothofagus gunnii or Deciduous Beech. "Fagus" for short.
The tree is restricted solely to a few small areas in Tasmania's alpine regions and in our southern hemisphere Autumn (April) it turns from green to an incandescent red, in just a few weeks.
Northern hemisphere types may well yawn but this small tree links Tasmania to the Antarctic through the fossil record and to modern day (southern) South America in the Antarctic Beech (Nothofagus antarctica).
This pic from the Tarn Shelf, Mt Field National Park, Tasmania. April 2018.
Fuji X-T2, XF60/2.4, 1/450th sec at f/4, ISO 400
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These are the leaves of the Tasmanian Fagus (Nothofagus gunnii). It's a macro pic - the leaves are only about 15mm long.
Australia has but one deciduous tree - Nothofagus gunnii or 'Fagus' and it is restricted to sub-alpine habitat in Tasmania - and there isn't a lot of that.
The tree is a Gondwana descendant and one of the signature species that substantiates tectonic drift theory. Living relatives are found in New Zealand and Patagonia with the Antarctic fossil record holding more evidence.
We are very proud of our Fagus and the fantastic colours of the leaves when it turns.
This pic from beside MacKenzie Tarn, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
Fuji X-T2, XF60/2.4, 1/480th sec at f/8, ISO 400
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