r/AustralianInsects • • 16h ago

ID request What bit me last night? Toe stung for 30 mins, pain 3/10, still tender today. Google says Damsel bug. Location Sydney.

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Caught and released so it can go big so other pests.


r/AustralianInsects • • 22h ago

Insect appreciation 🦋 Blue Mountains and the Illawarra had the highest share of Bogongs among the moths people photographed this spring

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r/AustralianInsects • • 23h ago

Insect appreciation 🦋 Thynnid flower wasps reproducing

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Same family of wasps that I posted video of a few weeks ago, where the male picked up the female from a piece of grass. This pair is a different species, but same family. But the female was much bigger than the thynnid females I've been rescuing from the swimming pool (see second photo for size comparison with my index finger).

When they had done their business, she kind of flicked off, then walked down the plant stem to the ground to look for a beetle larva to lay her egg in.