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Last of my You Yangs shots, here's a mantisfly! Those arms share the same purpose as a praying mantis', but these insects are more closely related to lacewing!

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Amber-coloured mantidfly with large green eyes standing prominently on a cluster of flowers

Another You Yangs photo! This lady is a bull ant—Myrmecia pilosula, also known as the black jumper ant! I was very careful around her nest, because I don't want to be stung by bull ants again.

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Large black bull ant on vegetation, facing directly at the camera. Face has large brown mandibles & antennae, with large black eyes.

Another observation from the You Yangs! This one is Eleale pulchra, a species of checkered beetle.

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A hairy beetle emerging from a cluster of flower buds

Going through my holiday photos and stumbled upon this Pempsamacra tillides longhorn beetle found in the You Yangs, a granite mountain range in Victoria, Australia.

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