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Grub ID - Straw-necked Ibis prey

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Subject: Grub ID - Straw-necked Ibis prey
From: David Stowe Photography <>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:15:56 +1000
Wow!
Thanks everyone!! Really appreciate all the help guys!
I'll try to put up a closer crop too which may or not be useful/interesting.
Much appreciated!!
Cheers
Dave

On 11/06/2013, at 4:35 PM,  wrote:

> PS, I should have said that Xylotrupes is your garden variety Rhinoceros 
> beetle, probably Xylotrupes gideon.
> 
> When I was a kid we called these witchety grubs, and since "you can eat 
> witchety grubs" I tried. Well, it's not very nice because they are feeding on 
> dirt/rotting timber, so that's what they taste like. In contrast to true 
> witchety grubs which are wood feeders and quite tasty.  
> 
> Eric Vanderduys
> Technical Officer
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Grub ID - Straw-necked Ibis prey
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Wondering if someone can help me ID the grub in this image?
> 
> http://www.davidstowe.com.au/AustralianBirds/Ibis-Spoonbills/Straw-necked-Ibis/29882470_mc7WTG#!i=2563658830&k=xWwmgMG
> 
> (In case the link gets broken - www.davidstowe.com.au - then look for a 
> Straw-necked Ibis image either in the recent images or via the Aus Birds 
> species accounts.)
> 
> I know the ID that i need isn't of a bird but i have a photo of a bird eating 
> it! It was so big that the bird had to have a couple of goes at it - first 
> time it gagged and had to spit it out!
> Its been suggested a Witchetty Grub but would love to know more and what it 
> would become?
> Photo was taken in Cairns (Centenary lakes) last week.
> 
> Cheers
> David Stowe
> 
> PS - there is also a few new images in there of the Great-billed Heron i 
> photographed at Centenary Lakes too.
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