Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

[tllwd]

I haven't seen a Christmas Beetle since I was a kid. I'm SO glad at least some are still around. What's a false one?

False Christmas beetles look like proper Christmas Beetles but smaller and their colours are not iridescent.
We have most of insects and wild life disappeared here after extreme bush fires in 2019-2020 but now they are gradually coming back.

[Black Orchid]

I haven't seen a Christmas Beetle since I was a kid. I'm SO glad at least some are still around. What's a false one?

False Christmas beetles look like proper Christmas Beetles but smaller and their colours are not iridescent.
We have most of insects and wild life disappeared here after extreme bush fires in 2019-2020 but now they are gradually coming back.

Every morning and evening flocks of Cockatoos flew over me squawking until the 2019 fires. Then nothing!

Some are coming back but much fewer now and I only see/hear them in the distance occasionally. Not daily.

[Jasin]

Wow. I just clicked on this page and above me around the backyard porch light is my first Christmas beetle.
How about that.

[tllwd]

Too much coincidence, we've been bugged

[Jasin]

Sitting in backyard.
Coped a 5th smack to the head by a Xmas beetle.
I think I'm having a lightbulb moment.

[tllwd]

Drone Fu



You can scale it down against Xmas beetles

[Jasin]

Drones are Skynet's way of saying "Here I come, ready or not."

[tllwd]

Father Frost vs Santa Claus.

[Jasin]

Santa. A Finnish hobo who ate the magic mushrooms and got high on his magic sleigh. The pun on his presents given to all children was on the fact that being a hobo, he had nothing to give. Reindeer also eating the mushies, would bump into trees and get their red noses.

Australia's version is. Fat beer gutted Yobbo known as the Beach Master in budgie smugglers, pissed as a fart, with an eski full of tinnies, riding a quaddie and hitting on all the ho ho ho's washed up on the sand with their beach towels.

[Bobby]

Xmas was fucked up by Muzzies in Bondi.