The Mallee Looper is a native caterpillar that is eating its way through thousands of hectares of Mallee Woodlands in Victoria and South Australia. Here is what we learnt this year.

Butterflies in abundance - Caper Whites and Chequered Swallowtails.

Mysterious cuckoo spit at the base of plants - what is it, where does it come from?

The rainy weather brings a multitude of Springtails.

Dragonflies dragging each other around by the head, psychedelic Damselflies, and an epic battle with a Mudeye.

A rare plant called Boerhavia coccinea, the food plant for the Striped Hawk Moth caterpillar Yeperenye.

Flowering at night, a mystery, native bee pollinator and special twists to keep the flowers closed. Weird indeed.

The weirdest-looking seed and swarms of bright red bugs.

If you’re a cicada, this is the last thing you’ll see before half of your head is ripped off. This Katydid is a unique example of “aggressive acoustic mimicry”.

This Spider Wasp dragged a Wolf Spider for 55 metres to stash it in her nesting burrow.

Is the colonising flight of thousands of termites a good or a bad thing?

The sand turds are everywhere in the Mallee and this is one of the beetles responsible!

A 67 year-old mystery has been solved by citizen science and social media, and a lost Jewel Beetle has been rediscovered on Raakajilm.