~Love On The Garden Refuse Bin~  As the temperatures rose this
afternoon, then so did the passion, it was all happening on my
parents garden refuse bin, I found quite a few of these
Deuterosminthurus pallipes doing their courtship dance on the
top of the bin, I imagine that they had been swept up with the
garden waste and had escaped to the top of the bin. In the main
image you can see the purple female courting with the yellow
male, in this species the male and female can be either yellow
or purple and sometimes there are a few slight colour
variations, it was nice to photograph them on another coloured
surface.   Also I'm still awake, went back to the park this
afternoon, but did not photograph much as the sun had brought
people out in their droves, it was too noisy for me, definitely
prefer it at 4am LOL :o)    34 faves Taken on June 10, 2012