Sighting and photos (c) greenieforever.
Field Notes - one of hundreds of Christmas spiders and one of several colonies in our various acacia thickets. Sandy soil.
This bug was not captured on a plant. There were a few small ones on the plant next to it, but this one was the biggest of them all!
Found in native beehive in my garden.
Hard to get a good photo as the hive was very active that day and they wouldn’t sit still!
Found on a Mandevilla vine outside the PNR building at USYD. Appears to be a female depositing her eggs.
Cicada nymph found during late afternoon gardening. Haven’t seen a young, soft bodied nymph like this before. It was trying to burrow backwards whilst being held in my hand, abdomen down first with large forelimbs moving upwards. I put the cute little tacker back where I found it after photographing.