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Spotted on False Sunflower (Heliopsis)
This smallish mantis was exploring a young casuarina tree. It looks not fully ...
A 6-10 airy shrub that forms thickets. A member of the Fabaceae (Pea) family ...
The False Ilex Hairstreak (Satyrium esculi) ...
Shiny brown spider, similar in shape to the
Attractive thin papery orange bracket fungi, each approx 100mm across, wavy ...
This mantis was making a meal of one of those 'plague beetles'. It was ...
About 60mm long. Very red eyes, green and dark yellow on body. Distinctive dark ...
Has three downward facing white petals, with three curled up petals covered ...
A flat, thin sometimes papery bracket fungi which appears on rotting timber. ...
two pairs of wings. It therefore belongs to the order Hymenoptera, like ants ...
. The flowers tend to attract bumble bees ...
crusted face. Adults eat pollen, but hunt
Megachile Latreille, 1802, is a cosmopolitan group of solitary
Excellently showy flower sprouting from a long stalk. Generally about 2-3 feet ...
drought, and also attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, bumblebees, honey
The final version of the D.vulnerans caterpillar - white-grey body with sets of ...
Body size Female to 15mm; male to 10mm. Appearance Rotund, brown with pale ...