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Stick Insect clinging to the wall of a Cairns home, this is a small example of the Stick insect which can grow to enormous size.
3 days chasing this thing around the house, feeding it with water and sugar, sticking it in the fridge, threatening it with light, threatening it without light, trapping it under a saucer for a while and eventually it stopped on the wall for about five seconds!
Not sure what this Lasius niger ant queen was doing but she seemed to have missed the ball. The other ants in the area flew about 3 weeks ago. Focus stacked using zerene stacker
This Tortoiseshell managed to find a space to feed between the Soldier beetles, only to get bounced off by an aggressive wasp...
The heat has brought he flies out, snapped these on and around the back door. Don't even think it...
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A video clip of a 0.5mm long female Anagrus atomus parasitoid wasp of the Mymaridae family walking and preening under water. It was found in a yellow pan with approximately 50mm depth of water, but it was alive and walking. When the pan was moved it fell over and was affected by the fluid movement, but as soon as the water became still it continued on its perambulations. On many occasions Mymarid wasps have been observed under water in seemingly good health for quite some time. Once helped out of the water they are able to preen and recover their ability to fly after a short time, provided the process of exiting the water is gentle. Scelionid wasps found in water appear dead and unmoving yet frequently recover after drying.