6 Apr 2018

Gungahlin Hill

A female Painted Apple Moth Orgyia anartoides with her eggs on Scribbly Gum


Another egg case on Acacia. The abandoned pupal case can be seen inside.


And again on Brittle Gum


Velvet Ant, which is actually an ant-mimicing flightless wasp  Ephutomorpha sp


Plenty of Soldier Beetles mating Chauliognathus lugubris. My child calls these Banana Bugs, which is much cuter.


Body feather of Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius