Tuesday 22 May 2012

Birthday competition&present! (sort of)

Being aware of the sparce following of this blog I can easily make the bold and generous step of offering a bottle of 2012 extra vergine (I know, it's short selling, but at least something you can look forward to!) to the person who can identify this lean looking insect found the other day on an olive plant:





















































Well, let's say the bottle will go to the best effort in identifying it...
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3 comments:

  1. Urska22 May 2012 at 12:24

    Rhynchites cribripennis? And a funny latin name, too, I know. Not that the croatian one is any better :-)

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  2. A22 May 2012 at 13:18

    I'll end like last JP Morgan balance sheet if I continue with such games...

    I suppose it's more a weevil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curculio

    Here some pics of the whole family http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id13235/

    Anyway, good try!

    I guess you deserve at least the bottle for the fastest answer...

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  3. Urska22 May 2012 at 16:33

    Well, I can't even say it's due to the photos, since they were really good ;-) It must be due to my lack of bug knowledge in general. Save the bottle for the next competition.

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