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Are You Scared of Australian Creepy Crawlies?

BobinOz — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:33:41 +0000

I think it’s an absolute miracle that I’ve lived here over four years and I still haven’t done a post on the TV program “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!” hosted by Ant and Dec. Today, I’m going to change that. What spurred me into this action now? Well, two performances that are [...]

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Are You Scared of Australian Creepy Crawlies?

Australia’s Top 3 Most Dangerous Snakes

BobinOz — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:11:46 +0000

Okay, let’s kick off 2012 with my favourite subject. Snakes! The Coastal Taipan is one of Australia’s most dangerous snakes. This very reclusive reptile is rarely spotted, even up north where it is believed to be much more common. Where I live, which is Western Suburbs of Brisbane, we have plenty of snakes. I had [...]

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Australia’s Top 3 Most Dangerous Snakes

Australia’s Imported Pests: Cane Toads, Rabbits, Fire Ants and…

BobinOz — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:46:27 +0000

As many of you know, I live in the western suburbs of Brisbane. It’s a small community, I’d call it semi-rural, and not that much happens here. There is no cinema, no pub and not many shops. But we do have a few churches and two of them got together to put on a nativity [...]

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Australia’s Imported Pests: Cane Toads, Rabbits, Fire Ants and…

Australia versus USA: Snakes, Sharks and Crocodiles.

BobinOz — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:58:13 +0000

Before all that scary stuff about snakes and sharks and death and attacks in Australia and the USA, here are a couple of updates. Summer began here in Australia yesterday and Christmas is in the air. I still can’t get used to the two of them together. As Eddie Izzard said, it’s like having custard [...]

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Australia versus USA: Snakes, Sharks and Crocodiles.

No-see-ums: Those Pesky Biting Midges Are Back!

BobinOz — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:44:08 +0000

My wife says I have ugly feet. Normally I’d disagree, but not today. Because today my feet are ugly, and painful, and itchy and, well, they look like this… Let’s take a closer look… Unhappy feet. This, as many of you will know, is the work of Ceratopogonidae. Or, as they are more commonly known, [...]

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No-see-ums: Those Pesky Biting Midges Are Back!

Australia’s ‘Other’ Wildlife: Cute Creatures.

BobinOz — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:01:51 +0000

Time for another reprint of one of my recent articles for Australia and New Zealand magazine. With impeccable timing, given the cockroach and snake posts of last week, today I’m going to be talking about Australia’s ‘other’ wildlife; the nice stuff. With articles like this, I have an advantage over the magazine, even if I [...]

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Australia’s ‘Other’ Wildlife: Cute Creatures.

Australia’s Good Things: At Last!

BobinOz — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:07:01 +0000

It’s not been a good week, has it? It doesn’t get much worse than Mondays post, which involved a snakebite fatality. Wednesday’s post did nothing to cheer you up after that, it was about cockroaches. Both of these posts sit firmly under the category of “Australia’s Bad Things“, which is, of course, full of bad [...]

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Australia’s Good Things: At Last!

Keeping the Cockroaches Out!

BobinOz — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:14:21 +0000

Whilst campaigning for the 2010 Federal election, Julia Gillard said “There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead”. She won the election. Yesterday, under the government led by Julia Gillard, carbon tax legislation was ratified. So today I want to talk about…….. Cockroaches. Of all the critters in all the world, there [...]

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Keeping the Cockroaches Out!

Snake Bite Dangers in Australia: What To do….

BobinOz — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:32:07 +0000

It would be wrong of me to write articles such as Australian Snakes and Death: Continued, if I wasn’t also prepared to write about snakes when a fatality occurs. I have always defended snakes and played down the dangers they present to the residents of Australia. With good reason too; anyone who has read that [...]

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Snake Bite Dangers in Australia: What To do….

More Itsy Bitsy Teeny Scary Australian Things

BobinOz — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:21:14 +0000

Australia has a pretty good selection of itsy-bitsy teeny scary creatures and I’ve mentioned a few before on this blog. I have previously described the mosquito as Australia’s biggest baddest thing. And I first looked at Australia’s ants back in May 2009 and re-looked at them again this year. Well, more specifically, I looked at [...]

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More Itsy Bitsy Teeny Scary Australian Things