#cymbacha

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The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Gundagai

AYArktos' photo from Wiki, since I was too busy looking for insects around the place to photograph the statue.

Gundagai is a small town on the Hume Highway between Sydney and Melbourne, and site of the famous Dog on the Tuckerbox, from a doggeral poem written at least as early as 1857. The bullock team driver in the poem was not having a good day, and the poem was considered quite rude even without the popular variations with an added 'h'

And the dog sat on the tuckerbox five miles from Gundagai.

@purrdence and I hadn't planned on stopping there - we'd originally intended to catch the train from Wagga Wagga to Sydney. But we didn't want to infect anybody with COVID.

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Cymbacha ocellata, a fairly common but rarely noticed crab spider that builds tetragonal refuges from eucalyptus leaves. One of them had built it in such a place that every drop of rain ran down into her refuge. Oddly enough, she seemed unconcerned by this.

Mt Pleasant and White Gum Valley, Perth