Excursion to Buckland,  Feb 2010
  Entomologist Elizabeth Daley hosted us for a field day at her Buckland farm.

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 A general view of the farm, which has been fenced-off into different ecosystems
- grassland, wetland, grassy forest, heath, riparian, etc.
 

 

Brown tree frog Litoria ewingii camouflages well in large thistles.

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A resting damselfly.

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Yellow-striped Hunter dragonfly,
Austrogomphus guerini.

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Crane-fly in a wattle tree.

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Tangle-veined fly, Trichophthalma sp.

Its larvae are parasites in other insects.

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Robber fly, Zolsteria sp.

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Satin-green Forester moth,
Pollanisus viridipulverulentus.

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A moulting Shield bug Stauralia chloracantha shedding its old exoskeleton

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The female Native Flower wasp Thynnus zonatus is wingless.
She will be carried from flower to flower by a male.

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We brought many insects back for show-and-tell on the Daleys' veranda.

Host Elizabeth is looking at a specimen being held up in a jar by son Tony, who is also an entomologist.

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Blue-spotted Hawker dragonfly,
Adversaeschna brevistyla.

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Gum-tree Shield bug,
Omyta centrolineata.

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Australian mantid Tenodera australasiae cleaning its 'foot'.
After its photoshoot, we released it into the garden, above.

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Freeloader! This tiny pseudo-scorpion is holding onto the beetle's hind leg; it is not harming the beetle, but merely hitching a ride with its much more mobile host.

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The field-nats.


Photos by Amanda Thomson, Annie Rushton, Michael Driessen, Geoff Fenton