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A broken-backed bug, Taylorilygus apicalis, loving life on a yellow flower.

#macro #nature #insect #brokenbackedbug #auswildlife #insectsofaustralia #insectsofthefediverse #insecteyeappreciation

Close-up shot of a broken-backed bug, Taylorilygus apicalis, on a yellow flower.

Cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi. The large white part is the ovisac, filled with hundreds of eggs.

#macro #nature #insect #scale #auswildlife #insectsofaustralia #insectsofthefediverse

Cottony cushion scale insects, Icerya purchasi, on a leaf. One has a large white ovisac, with smaller ones on and around it.

Long-tailed pea blue, Lampides boeticus.

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Long-tailed blue butterfly, Lampides boeticus, feeding from a blue flower.

An Australian cuckoo wasp, Primeuchroeus sp. Like it's avian namesake, cuckoo wasps lay their eggs in the nests of unrelated host species.

#macro #nature #insect #wasp #cuckoowasp #auswildlife #insectsofaustralia #insectsofthefediverse

A bright metallic-green Australian cuckoo wasp, Primeuchroeus sp., on the trunk of a eucalyptus tree.

Yellow-shouldered ladybird, Apolinus lividigaster.

#macro #nature #insect #ladybird #ladybug #auswildlife #insectsofaustralia #insectsofthefediverse

Front view of ayellow-shouldered ladybird, Apolinus lividigaster, with a yellow face and covered in short white hair.

Rainbow lorikeets, Trichoglossus moluccanus, drinking and playing in the sun.

#nature #bird #lorikeet #rainbowlorikeet #birdsofaustralia #auswildlife #birdsofthefedierse

Rainbow lorikeets, Trichoglossus moluccanus, drinking from and playing on a water fountain on a clear sunny day.

Little pied cormorant, Microcarbo melanoleucos, with a tasty catch.

#nature #bird #cormorant #littlepiedcormorant #auswildlife #birdsofaustralia #birdsofthefediverse

A little pied cormorant, Microcarbo melanoleucos, swimming in the ocean with some freshly-caught food in its beak.

Sooty oystercatchers, Haematopus fuliginosus.

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Three sooty oystercatchers, Haematopus fuliginosus, on some limestone rocks.

A spotted muscleman tree ant, Podomyrma adelaidae, crawling along on a dead tree stump.

#macro #nature #insect #ant #treeant #musclemantreeant #auswildlife #insectsofaustralia #insectsofthefediverse

A spotted muscleman tree ant, Podomyrma adelaidae, on a dead eucalyptus stump.

A red and blue beetle (both its common name and basic description!), Dicranolaius bellulus.

I thought it was more green than blue and was kind of annoyed at finding out the common name, but felt somewhat vindicated when I saw it belongs in the Malachiinae subfamily.

#macro #nature #insect #beetle #redandbluebeetle #itsgreennotblue #thedress #auswildlife #insectsofaustralia #insectsofthefediverse

Face-on view of a red and blue beetle, coloured red and green, Dicranolaius bellulus, on a leaf.

Greenish grass-dart, Ocybadistes walkeri.

#macro #nature #insect #butterfly #grassdart #greenishgrassdart #auswildlife #insectsofaustralia #insectsofthefediverse

Close up shot of a greenish grass-dart, Ocybadistes walkeri, on a leaf.

A cute little southern marbled gecko, Christinus marmoratus.

#nature #gecko #marbledgecko #southernmarbledgecko #lizard #reptile #auswildlife #reptilesofaustralia #reptilesofthefediverse

A southern marbled gecko, Christinus marmoratus, on a log.

Tawny rock dragon, Ctenophorus decresii.

#nature #lizard #rockdragon #tawnyrockdragon #reptiles #auswildlife #reptilesofaustralia #reptilesofthefediverse

A tawny rock dragon, Ctenophorus decresii, sunning itself on a rock.

An unusually chilled-out White's skink, Liopholis whitii. This little guy allowed me to get close enough to get a decent shot with my Olympus 60mm lens.

#nature #skink #whitesskink #lizard #reptile #auswildlife #reptilesofaustralia #reptilesofthefediverse

A White's skink, Liopholis whitii, sunning itself on a rock.

Crescent honeyeater, Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus.

#nature #birds #honeyeater #crescenthoneyeater #auswildlife #birdsofaustralia #birdsofthefediverse

A crescent honeyeater, Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus, perched on a thin branch in a eucalyptus tree.

Tiny ants, annoyed that I knocked off the piece of bark they were hiding under. Cocktail ants, Crematogaster sp.

#macro #nature #insect #ants #cocktailants #auswildlife #insectsofaustralia #insectsofthefediverse

A swarm of cocktail ants, Crematogaster sp., on the bare trunk of a eucalyptus tree.

At first I thought this was some sort of fossil - it felt like part of the rock. Turns out it's a chiton, a marine mollusc. This one is a giant chiton, Plaxiphora albida.

Chitons use biomineralisation to coat their teeth in iron (technically magnetite) so they can chew away on coral and algae growing on rocks.

#macro #nature #chiton #mollusc #auswildlife #molluscsofaustralia #marinelife

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