Olive-grey head and upperparts. The underparts are yellowish with faint streaking. No wing bars, thin bill, and a broken white eye-ring.

This cute little one was found on a hiking trail on a wet day after some morning rainfall.

Olive-grey head and upperparts. The underparts are yellowish with faint streaking. No wing bars, thin bill, and a broken white eye-ring.

Weaver ants or green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). Weaver ants live in trees (they are obligately arboreal) and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk. Colonies can be extremely large consisting of more than a hundred nests spanning numerous trees and containing more than half a million workers. Like many other ant species, weaver ants prey on small insects and supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by small insects (Hemiptera). Weaver ant workers exhibit a clear bimodal size distribution, with almost no overlap between the size of the minor and major workers. The major workers are approximately 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) in length and the minors approximately half the length of the majors. Major workers forage, defend, maintain, and expand the colony whereas minor workers tend to stay within the nests where they care for the brood and 'milk' scale insects in or close to the nests. Weaver ants vary in color from reddish to yellowish brown dependent on the species. Oecophylla smaragdina found in Australia often have bright green gasters. Weaver ants are highly territorial and workers aggressively defend their territories against intruders. Because they prey on insects harmful to their host trees, weaver ants are sometime used by indigenous farmers, particularly in southeast Asia, as natural biocontrol agents against agricultural pests. Although weaver ants lack a functional sting they can inflict painful bites and often spray formic acid directly at the bite wound resulting in intense discomfort.

Long-horned beetles with distinctive markings. The first pic is of a mating pair. The male is much smaller and has longer antennae. Males will try to perch themselves on top of a flowering plant and wait for a female to arrive. Pic 3 shows a male waiting for a female but butterflies are showing up instead.

A sweat bee with a bright green metallic head and thorax. The abdomen is yellowish with light brown bands.