How it was

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How it was

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Subject:	How it was
From:	"Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date:	Sun, 2 Nov 2014 17:44:29 +1100

By contrast with what is available today, below is a recently scanned (and grainy and rather dirty) slide from about 20 years ago. The subject is 2 Gang-gangs on Rocky Knob, both eating sawfly larvae. The enlargement of the female shows the technique is to hold the caterpillar between 2 toes while dismembering it with the bill.

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