Author Koh Lin ◦
As I look back through some of my photographs, I could see that I had snapped many photos of insects, and a phrase comes to mind “all creatures great and small”. For those that remember, the phrase became popular from a British television series that was set in 1930s and 1940s in Northern England. The tv series was based upon a series of books about a Yorkshire veterinary surgeon, authored by Alf Wight and under the pen name of James Herriot. So presented here, are some of those captured moments of creatures great and small…
I had been watching this mud nest for a while, so was super happy to observe the Golden-browed Resin Bee (Megachile aurifrons), with their amazing eye colour, making use of the vacated nest and the empty nesting cells, and lucky to get a photo of the Megachile aurifrons native bee emerging with pollen all over her face.
The Red-headed Masked Bee (Hylaeus ruficeps) enjoyed living in the cracks of our wooden bench seat on our porch… and did not appear to mind posing on my finger…
I was really taken with Green Blowfly (Lucilia cuprina), blowing a nectar bubble.
A colourful bee fly (Neosardus sp), that was in the swimming pool.
A species of Mydas Fly (genus Miltinus) on a eucalypt leaf in Alice Springs.
A Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp (Radumeris tasmaniensis) rescued from the pool.
A distinctive looking Yellow-shouldered Hover Fly (Ischiodon scutellaris) in Alice Springs.
My first Soft-winged Flower Beetle, Chlorobapta frontalis, rescued out of a pool.
Another colourful Soft-winged Flower Beetle (from the genus Carphurus).
Love the eyes in this closeup of the Eretes australis (subfamily Dytiscinae).
I found this Green Carab Beetle (Calosoma schayeri), missing one leg and crawling on a supermarket floor. Yes, I did rescue it and released it outside on a garden verge.
A Digger wasp (thought to be Sphex corporosus), is a member of the Thread-waisted Wasps family Sphecidae. The Sphex genus are commonly known as Digger Wasps.
I was amazed to see my very first Shield Shrimp (Triops australiensis) at the water-filled Alice Springs Ilparpa Claypans, on the south side of the MacDonnell Ranges.
The Scarlet Percher (Diplacodes haematodes) has certainly been one of my favourite insects, as it settled long enough for a series of photos.
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