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PaulG
29-12-2011, 10:44 PM
Found these little critters today crawling all over the front wall of a house.

Had just edged and started mowing the lawn so I don't know if that stirred them up or even if they had come from the lawn in the first place.

The body length is about three millimetres from head to tail. The colour is a bronzish shimmer, almost a bit like a bronze-orange bug but not so colourful.

There was hundreds of them crawling over the walls, roller door etc. I managed to get one on my hand and it didn't fly away but jumped off with quite a big springing jump!

Anyone seen anything like them before?

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6593627777_6313613d2a_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulgoodallphotography/6593627777/)

Bluey
30-12-2011, 07:06 AM
Hmmmm.......might be the South African bronze-orange wall crawler bug