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Xylocopa spp.
“I had a nightmare last night. I was making the biggest, the most incredible larval bread for my children and then this smell wafted in, the smell of that woman who lives with her sister in the Grass trees, they were coming to eat my children, I rushed to the hole using the most violent buzz I could and when I looked out there she was but her head was covered in a ball of wriggling blister beetle larvae, I turned to block the hole to save my children but when I looked around the larvae were already inside, they all had the face of the woman from the grass trees and they were eating my bread and my children. It was so horrible and then as I begun to move toward them the whole place shook, and tilted, sending the bread, my children and the grass-tree-woman-faced-larvae to fall on top of me. And then, slicing through the house with silver teeth came this monstrous blade moving back and forth turning the walls into dust and getting closer and closer and closer and closer. ..and then I woke up”. Guardian: Milan
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I didn't think we had these in Oz. Thanks for sharing this.