#tawera

[drhoz]

#2939 - Tawera lagopus - Banded Venerid

Endemic to the beachs of southern Australia and New Zealand, from the Eocene to the present.

Woodman Point, Perth, WA

[etoilegarden]

Somewhere between Springfield/Tawera/Kowai river and Arthur’s pass

[csodaturmix]

model sheets for my oc Tawera, featuring the school uniforms from Heartstopper and Harry Potter

[willowishstudios]

Happy Fathers Day!

[zaigan-the-rogue]

Following the Bee Line

So I found myself following a literal bee line.  It was weird and I just had to know where they were going.  They didn't break formation all the way through the shops and just kept going.  Eventually they found the place they were looking for and just flew on in.   It was strangely fitting; some tavern called "Mead Haven."  Maybe they'd come here with a vengeance for all their unpaid time spent supplying them with honey.  Even the bees here want their cut of the profits.  

I guess it could be a trick the owners did to draw in more business.  Can you train bees?    Never took them to be particularly smart. | Either way, went to get my answers or at least watch a bunch of unsuspecting smucks get stung!

[csodaturmix]

*does a gay little dance that pisses you off*

[drhoz]

#3051 - Tawera gallinula - Chicken Venus 

AKA Venus tasmanica, humphreyi, costulata and gallinula, Feathered Venerid, and Hen Venus.

More often found on SE coastlines, in sand off sheltered ocean beaches, from low tide to depth of about 35m.

Leighton Beach, WA Naturalists Club Centenary Beach Walk, Perth, WA.

[drhoz]

#994 - Tawera sp.

I thought I had this IDed as the Banded Venerid or Fine Tawera, Tawera lagopus, but now I suspect I’m wrong - around Tasmania, at least, it doesn’t get much bigger than 4cm. Maybe it’s larger in WA? Or another species, of course.

I’d found this one previously, which appears to have suffered an injury when young and never recovered.

Port Kennedy, Perth