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A small speckled leaf beetle on the stem of an established eucalyptus.
A tiny brown beetle
The fourth image is beside a regular sized
A mottled black tortoise leaf beetle about 8mm long with textured elytra.
A large brown leaf beetle with rows of bumps along the elytra, dark pronotum ...
Feeding on the young shoots of the eucalyptus
A mottled brown beetle thinking with some justification that it was a gumnut
This relatively large black hemispherical beetle is a mimic of gumnuts and leaf ...
A brown hemispherical beetle looking like a gumnut. The elytra are pitted and ...
These leaf beetles are dull colors and feature warty elytral texture. They ...
small gumnuts, the seed structures which these beetles mimic. I suspect ...
This honey brown and knobbly beetle was found on box gum. Tracymela species ...
A beautiful beetle about 8mm long. The dark brown thorax and elytra had small ...
This brown convex beetle has an unusual transverse line.
Another interesting little eucalyptus leaf beetle this time in mottled pink and ...
A dark grey leaf beetle with a rough elytra and extensive white powder coating. ...
A mottled leaf beetle with typical black tubercules over its back. Not typical ...
A dull brown leaf beetle with knotty elytra.
This might be
light tan/brown/reddish mottled beetle , almost appearing to have cream dusting ...
A leaf beetle about 12 mm long. The thorax, head and elytra were black, rough ...
an infestaton of red mites.
The species that hide under bark include
Antennae tucked away and not visible , mottled brown shades , with black ...
A small red Paropsis tortoise leaf beetle covered with chains of golden beads.
A nice light variation of this variable beetle. This is the first time spotting ...