Author Koh Lin ◦
As a well known phrase from a late 1960’s popular American television sitcom… “I see nothing!” That was me… and I suspect a lot of other people.
With the growing interest in the natural world around us, in particular our immediate surroundings such as our garden, that phrase is being turned on its head… Of course you don’t necessarily need a high end camera, when a perfectly good camera may sit in your pocket… your mobile phone.
Once your interest is kindled, it is amazing how your brain and eyes seem to get tuned in to spotting small insects and spiders that once may have escaped your gaze unnoticed.
So I bring for you here… a small selection of the creatures that call my secret garden home…
- Golden-browed Resin Bee (Megachile aurifrons)
- Megachile (Rhodomegachile) deanii
- Bright-white Masked Bee – Hylaeus (Gnathoprosopis) albonitens
- Amegilla Bee (genus Amegilla)
- European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
- Nymph stages of Giant Grasshopper (Valanga irregularis)
- Australian Sheep Blowfly (Lucilia cuprina)
- Woodger’s Gumleaf Katydid (Terpandrus woodgeri)
- Bynoe’s Gecko (Heteronotia binoei)
- Eastern Tree Dtella (Gehyra versicolor)
- Lined Firetail Skink (Morethia ruficauda)
- Long-nose Dragon (G. longirostris)
- Longhorn Beetles (Pachydissus)
- Mottled Flower Scarab (Protaetia fusca)
- Soapberry Bug (Leptocoris sp)
- Transverse Ladybird (Coccinella transversalis)
- Australian Striped Hawk Moth (Hyles livornicoides)
- Blue Moon Butterfly (Hypolimnas bolina), also known as the Common Eggfly Butterfly
- Caper White Butterfly (Belenois java)
- Caterpillars, including those of the Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris rapae) in the mud nest of the Orange-tailed Potter Wasp (Delta latreillei)
- Orange-tailed Potter Wasp (Delta latreillei)
– the above photo was included in the blog “a penthouse with a view…“
- Australian Golden Orb Weaver Spider (Trichonephila edulis)
- Hackled Orbweavers (family Uloboridae)
- Long-tailed St. Andrews Cross Spider (Argiope protensa)
- Lynx Spider (Oxyopidae)
- Wall Spider (Oecobius sp)
- White-spotted Swift Spider (Nyssus albopunctatus)
Oh… and among the many birds that visit our garden, we have the beautiful treasures of the visiting Western Bowerbirds…
You can also read the blogs from the archive, mentioning the bower’s treasures:
- Treasures of our Western Bowerbird
- Looking Forward… Even the bower bird had renovated…
- The Road Ahead… Still here and facing the road ahead…
This blog will evolve as we add more fauna from our garden.
Online there are many other passionate people who share their love of all our living flora and fauna in their gardens and surrounds… checkout our many contributors and Guest Authors and the many Facebook groups including Nature Photos from My Garden by Di Bickers…