StephenSolomons

Thanks Neil. It is the second. The first had red legs I had never seen them before I moved here

She came to me Neil. I was delighted to meet her. She was a big and ancient matriarch I think. Wonderful!

The margins on the wing seem not have enough ripple to be the species I have put forward although that was your point

We are not seeing the wasps but something seems to be causing heavy local extinctions of things like some spiders. As I said the flurry of moths I had last year has failed to happen. The Christmas Beetles didn't arrive in numbers this year but there did seem to be numbers munching on the leaves of gum trees. If we cannot save tigers and bilbys we will have lost insects and spiders and other things without a whimper. Those wasps are scary.

I used to get some good ones. The places I look were almost empty this year. I doubt I considered the margins very well

Somewhere I have more images of after the moult I think. I will look

Hmm, this is difficult, could be either/or another

Thanks Neil.

Thanks Neil.

That is a sad loss, thanks for the beautiful images mate.

I think this ID is incorrect, sub-species?