Stories about insects
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Stories about insects 〰️
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.
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.
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.