March Flies

Three kinds of March Flies

Other Flies

Crane Fly, possibly
Green Long-legged Fly

Ants, Bees, Wasps

Bee and wasp house, being checked out by a mud hornet

Paper Wasps

Yellow Paper Wasp. This large nest is about 30 cm across, with thousands of wasps

Honey Bees

Jane Parchert has supplied the following pictures and notes about bee swarms.

The bees came in to our back yard & I could hear them as they made the ball in a tree behind us. We didn’t get that swarm but have since collected several swarms from that particular tree! It’s such a treat to watch it all unfold!

Feral bee hive

Native Bees

Native bees on pigface flower
Native bee hive in cypress tree trunk
Pollen sacs coloured red by the pollen collected

Resin Bee

Bugs and other sucking insects

Harlequin Bug. Photo Jane Parchert
Pandanus bug
Juvenile Assassin Bug
Unknown
Shield or stink bugs? Photo Jo Brown
Harlequin Bugs – nymphs on Cotton Tree

Cicadas

White Drummer Cicada
White Drummer emerging -adult (Photo Jo Brown)
Cicada shell
Bladder Cicada

Butterflies

Common Jezebel
(Photo Jo Brown)
Blue Triangle Butterfly (Photo Jo Brown)
Blue Triangle Butterfly (Photo Jo Brown)
Blue Triangle
(Photo Jo Brown)
Swamp Tiger
Cabbage White Butterfly
Blue Tiger
Evening Brown – dry season colours
Evening Brown – wet season colours
Evening Brown – hiding on the stick
Clearwing swallowtail Swallowtail)
(Photo Kim and Daphne Wall)
Orchard Swallowtail – female (Photo Jo Brown)

Moths

Variable Anthelid (Photo Jo Brown)
White Looper Moth
Emperor Moth
Hawk Moth

Beetles

Green Christmas Beetle
Christmas Beetle
Rhinoceros Beetle – female
Rhinoceros Beetle – male

Caterpillars

Processionary Caterpillars
Unidentified larva
Crinum Grubs

Centipede, Millipede

Dragonfly and Lacewing

Lacewing
Angular-winged Lacewing (Libby Winter)

Grasshoppers, Katydids, Mantids

Katydid
Green Grasshopper nymph
Unidentified grasshopper
Unidentified preying mantis (Photo Jo Brown)

Spiders

Flower Spider
Huntsman
Typical Jumping Spider
(Jo Brown)
Iridescent Jumping Spider (Jo Brown)