Recent Posts Tagged With 'insects hymenoptera'

• No Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos - Just Insects

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 15:43 in insects hymenoptera, insects diptera

  After reading Denis Wilson's post on photographing Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos I was quite chuffed to see a flock of seven alighting on the dead trees in the gully near my house. I quickly ran inside to grab my camera and off I went up the hill to ...

• Mothing - 27th October 2008

  Posted on Sunday October 26th, 2008 at 23:08 in backyard, insects lepidoptera, insects hymenoptera, mothing, insects neuroptera

  We had a very warm night last night. The temperature was still around 15 degrees at midnight. Unfortunately I couldn't leave the moth trap on all night as there was a risk of showers but a few did turn up before I hit the sack.First up there were 3 H...

• Wattle Apple-gall Wasp

  Posted on Saturday October 11th, 2008 at 19:32 in plants, insects hymenoptera

  .....Trichilogaster sp.Apple-galls in the inflorescences of Acacias are caused by wasps which lay there eggs in the young flower buds. These wasps belong to the genus Trichilogaster of the family Pteromalidae. Some species are known to lay up to 400 ...