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Natasha Taylor
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Oooh beautiful photo! This is my local Great Egret, we call them Igret Birdgman
Great Egret standing in water, reflection partially visible
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Radumeris radula, the most beautiful insect I've ever seen! I mistook her for a tiny model at first, and feel so lucky that I had my camera with me.
Scoliid wasp standing on some small white & yellow flowers. The wasp is fluffy, with whit fur on the ventral part of their body and ruddy fur on the thorax. Has a bright yellow abdomen that fades into orange and black at the end, and black wings. Head it mostly whit fur, with large white eyes.
March 11, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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Camouflage! This little thing is the larva of a green lacewing! It has a bunch of detritus stuck to its back so it can safely hide from predators, while using the stabby bits on its face to kill common garden pests like aphids; these things are voracious predators!
A pale green lacewing with white, black, and grey fibres adhered to its back, standing on a patterned white or grey surface rendering it difficult to see.
September 28, 2023 at 7:05 AM
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Cute little native cockroach! Tentatively ID'd this as Ellipsidion bicolor, not a pest species.
#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Insect #Cockroach #Ectobiidae #Ellipsidion #EllipsidionBicolor
Dorsal shot of a yellow cockroach with a longitudinal black stripe down its wings, standing on a tree trunk.
September 27, 2023 at 8:34 AM
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This is a member of Psocodea, which includes bark lice and book lice! I don't know anything about this order, so that's as narrow as the ID is getting.

#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Insect #Psocodea
Dorsal shot of a Psocodea centred with its antennae (approximately double body length) stretched out to either side, standing on a tree trunk
September 26, 2023 at 9:04 AM
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Don't have as much time to go finding bugs at present, but here's a bee by way of apology!
#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Insect #Bee #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Apis #ApisMellifera
European honeybee covered in a thick dusting of orange-coloured pollen, climbing on a wilting orange-coloured flower
September 25, 2023 at 9:31 AM
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This intimidating creature is the stick-nest brown paper wasp! While they look scary, they're actually pretty chill (unless you touch their nest), and pretty small—only about a centimetre long!
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Side photo of a brown wasp with a yellow face and large eyes, standing on a stick.
August 26, 2023 at 9:31 AM