.. tiny, but so close their whispers sound more like thunderous roars
honey bee (apis mellifera)
not a bee, not a wasp; just a fly, a spotted eyed drone fly (eristalinus punctulatus), working hard on its disguise and weighing its life choices from this leaf.
honey bee (apis mellifera) collecting nectar from the pink flowers of an Escallonia shrub.
hover fly (eupeodes fumipennis) on dendelionn (taraxacum officinale),
on the mexican orange bloom (choisya ternata) is the soldier fly (odontomyia)
honey bee (apis mellifera) foraging amongst lavender
blow fly (calliphoridae)
the meat ant (iridomyrmex purpureus)
ommon drone fly (eristalis tenax), mimicking a honey bee & foraging amongst thyme (thymus vulgaris)
on a leaf's edge, is the citrus flower moth (prays nephelomima)
unmistakeable with its long antennae, is this katydid
banded sugar ant (camponotus consobrinus)
tiger crane fly (nephrotoma australasiae) on a dead leaf - often mistaken for large mosquitoes but are harmless to humans and do not bite or suck blood
.. its a pelecinus polyturator is a species of wasp in the family pelecinidae.
orange assassin bug (gminatus australia)
lynx spider (oxyopes species), devours hoverfly (syrphidae)
honey bee (apis mellifera) at rest on a leaf
honey bee (apis mellifera)
short-tailed blue butterfly (cupido alcetas)
.. all aboard! on a rather crowded garden daisy express - with 9 little creatures? ... the tachinid fly (phasia obesa), carpet beetle (anthrenus verbasci), and the bunch of thrips (order thysanoptera)
resting on a lavendar stalk is a yellow-shouldered stout hover fly (simosyrphus grandicornis)
resting on thyme flowers (thymus vulgaris) is a green bottle fly (lucilia sericata)
short-winged conehead green katydid or bush-cricket (conocephalus dorsalis) - its thin antennae exceeds its body length, distinguishing it from a grasshopper.
atypical of the lynx spider (oxyopes species), is the web its spun
the same, but from a different angle is a green bottle fly (lucilia sericata)resting on thyme flowers (thymus vulgaris)
well camoflauged is a grass moth (agriphila selasella)
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