Excursion to Waverley Flora Park, 6 Oct 2007
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A Bulbine lilly about to flower. Bulbine glauca. |
Candles, Stackhousia monogyna. |
Nymph of Variable Cirphula grasshopper, Cirphula pyrrhocnemis. |
An orb-weaver spider on a Bulbine lilly. |
James found this Meadow Argus butterfly Junonia villida. |
Spider orchid, Caladenia caudata. |
A mating pair of Gonipterus scutellatus weevils in a eucalypt sapling. |
An iridescent Satin green forester moth Pollanisus viridipulverulenta. [10mm body length] |
An iridescent beetle feeding on a Billy button, Craspedia glauca. The beetle is an Eleale sp., family Cleridae. [15mm long] |
Two views of a Gumleaf
hopper nymph. [20mm] |
Sugar ants Camponotus consobrinus in their nest under
a rock, with larvae and pupae. [12mm long] |
Leafhopper nymphs Eurymeloides bicincta about 3mm long congregating on a eucalypt; except for the animal circled, which is actually a Salticid spider. |
An anthelid moth caterpillar. |
An arctiid moth caterpillar behind some silk web. |
These two chrysomelid beetles 3mm long occurred together on
wattle regrowth. The one on the right jumps and is Chaetocnema
TFIC sp. 01 (family Galerucinae). Photographed with a microscope - Lynne Forster |
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Photos by Geoff Fenton, Lynne Forster |