I’m pretty sure I saw that same TV ad here in the U.S., with the two talking crows. I suppose the ad was for paint, but I was so distracted by the bird species they used that I didn’t pay attention to the product being advertised.
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I’m amazed to find out it is a real organism - thought it was a construct.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/248111-Lordotus
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Clearly, the paint ad did it’s job as it seems well remembered. I recall a similar ad for Windex cleaner, also. It seems an arresting, charismatic creature is an effective marketing strategy.
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Yup, don’t know the genus, you should be right, but it’s a bombyliid for sure.)
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there is even one on the distribution map ‘near’ me (Montagu and Anysberg)
I met some cuties last year too! There’re also similar-looking families, e.g. Nemestrinidae, though they’re not that fluffy.
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what big eyes you have!
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If you can definitively tell a domestic dog track from a jackal track, you are more skilled than most wildlife biologists.
Now I’m curious as to whether the GEICO gecko can be IDed to species…
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You don’t adopt adults… It should be a larva? ;)
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In this case they better adopt dults, so they can count their wings to see if it’s a bee at all!
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lol, a kinda ugly duckling story… “wait, you’re not a bee…”
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Believe it or not, its actually not that hard at all, particularly if you have a size reference. The major thing to look out for is the degree of lobing in the toes and the shape of the X pattern through the toes
I’m still very much an amateur in tracking
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We have a version of those cute little bee flies here in NE Ohio. At least “bee” is in the name.
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Oh wow!
I believe it’s a bipedal subspecies of Phelsuma laticauda. But I’m not a gecko expert.
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