Author Koh Lin ◦
When I saw it in the water, I though it was dead!
It was a small black looking insect floating in the swimming pool, approximately 7 mm in length. When I fished it out of the water, it certainly was lifeless. Then it slowly revived. At the time, I did not realise I had documented this very same insect around the same time last year (on the 12 September 2024 to be exact)… Therevidae (order Diptera).
It is not the first time, I have found insects that appeared deceased… many were fished out of the swimming pool, dead in appearance, but then they slowly revived…
- Golden Native Drone Fly (Eristalinus punctulatus) rescued from a swimming pool in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Unfortunately sometimes they are dead…
- Ellipsidion humerale (deceased) in swimming pool in Alice Springs.
- Orthetrum caledonicum, deceased male Blue Skimmer, from pool in Alice Springs.
- Deceased (drowned) Plume Moth (family Pterophoridae) in pool, Alice Springs NT.
- Genus Craspedogryllacris / Tribe Paragryllacridini (deceased in swimming pool).
- Male Radumeris tasmaniensis (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) rescued from a swimming pool in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
- Leioproctus sp (rescued from swimming pool) in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
- Male Red-headed Mouse Spider (Missulena occatoria) rescued from a swimming pool in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
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