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A sideview photo of a yellow grass lynx spider sitting on the tip of a mottled green leaf. The spider is bright yellow with a large teardrop abdomen, boxy head and angular long legs with spikey hairs along them. It's small black eyes seem focused forward, and its pedipalps relaxed over its red tipped chelicerae

I'm very chuffed with this photo, it does justice to the cool lynx spoods🤩

🪲ID Guess: Grass Lynx Spiders
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Omg it doessss!!🥺

:D thank you!!

A side view photo of a brown seed bug perched on the end of a dark green leaf against a muted green, blurry background. The bug has rice-grain proportioned body, mostly brown but with some segments a dark green. It has a small pointed head with little dark red eyes, segmented antennae, and transparent wings folded neatly over its abdomen. Its body and legs are covered in a short fluff

It looks so melancholic in this photo... wistful bug

🪲ID Guess: Caledonia Seed Bug
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A three quarter front view of an iridescent leaf cylinder beetle sitting on the unfurled petals of a closed yellow flower. The beetle has a thick, rotund body coloured bright yellow. Its legs, antennae and oblong eyes are black, and there is a hint of its shiny carapace on its back in this photo

A photo of that same beetle sitting in the same spot, taken from behind. In this photo its black head, yellow thorax plate, and iridescent green carapace can be better seen. Its abdomen is so chunky that the carapace doesn't cover the whole top of it

What a photogenic fella!

🪲ID Guess: Iridescent Leaf Cylinder Beetle
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A three quarter top view photo of a trig cricket sitting on the stem of a brown dead leaf. The cricket has a small body with its back legs almost as big as its whole body and antennae even longer. Its body is black, its legs a light brown and its eyes muted dark red. It has sharp hairs on its hind legs and two spines coming from the end of its abdomen. Its shiny transparent wings fold neatly over its abdomen

A photo of the same species of cricket, this time at side view and sitting on the edge of a green leaf, surrounded by other leaves and long blades of grass. With this angle the pointed mouthparts and dotted antennae can be better seen

Been affectionately dubbing these guys 'trig crickets' when I see them :>

🪲ID Guess: Trigonidium
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A three quarter bottom view of a juvenile silver orb spider sitting in the middle of its web against a bright green, blurred background. The spider has half transparent green legs with yellow joints, a darker yellow sternum, and a brown abdomen specked with light silver and some yellow, becoming more silvery near the top of its abdomen

Is a juvenile silver orb spider I think? is round instead of long lmao

🪲ID Guess: Silver Orb Spider - Juvenile
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:D thank youuu!

A side view photo of a tiny wasp sitting on the tip of a green leaf. The wasp has a very small frame, with a little round head, bigger thorax, and longer abdomen. Its head and thorax is a bright shiny orange, and it has large black eyes and long black antennae. Its abdomen is white on the sides and black on the top and bottom. Black wings fold neatly over its back, and its little legs grip gently onto the leaf

Dainty <3

🪲ID Guess: Braconid Wasps
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hehehe thank youuuu

A three quarter top view photo of a bee fly sitting on a half-closed purple flower. The fly has an incredibly fluffy light brown body, with two large eyes that touch in the middle, small antennae, and a long pointed proboscis. It has long legs, half light brown and half black, and two transparent wings at rest by its sides.

I can't describe how excited I was to see this little cutie, let alone get a nice photo of it :DDDD
You can see the pollen on its proboscis <333

🪲ID Guess: Bee fly - Bombyliini
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xD exactly the vibe

A top view photograph of the inside of a bright yellow flower and five little stingless bees scurrying about its stamens. The bees have small, shiny black bodies with transparent wings folded neatly over their backs, triangular heads with big eyes, and thin antennae

It was so hard getting photos of these busy little guys!

🪲ID Guess: Stingless Bees - Tetragonula
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They're surprisingly easy to spot when youre looking out for them :D there's another crab spider here that's completely stark white👀

Lol true, especially with that shiny green

A top, front view photo of a green flower crab spider on the edge of a green leaf. the spider has a round, shiny head and abdomen, and slender legs covered in sparse sensory hairs. The spider's front and legs is bright green, shiny, and almost transparent looking. Its abdomen is an opaque yellow with small dark dots sparsely covering the top. Its little pedipalps look like they're holding the edge of the leaf.

I drew this guy for an art assignment in highschool :D so every time I see them out in the garden its like seeing an old friend <3

🪲ID Guess: Flower Crab Spider - Tharrhalea
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A back view photo of a lynx spider on a green leaf, with the two small eyes at the back of its head in clear focus. The spider has short hairs over its body, mostly cream colours with some splotches of black. It has a squarish head, teardrop abdomen, and spindly legs covered in long black sensory hairs tucked close to its body.

Eyes at the back of its head 👀

🪲ID Guess: Lynx Spider
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A side view of a transverse ladybird beetle scurrying across short green grass. The beetle is a bright redish orange with splotches of black across its elytron, a black thorax with some yellow splotches, and a small black head with big eyes. Its little black legs stretch out to crawl over the uneven grass

A front view photo of a 28-spotted potato ladybird beetle sat curled up on the vein of a large green leaf. The beetle is very rounded, especially as it has tucked it self in as if to rest. It has a bright orange body with evenly spaces black spots over its elytron, a couple spots on its thorax, and only its two black eyes on its little head. It's body is covered in a fine fuzz as if flocked.

🪲ID Guesses (6/6)
5: Transverse Ladybird Beetle - Coccinella transversalis
6: 28 spotted potato ladybird - Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata

A top view photo of a striped ladybird in the middle of a bright green leaf. The beetle has a rounded oval shaped body, mostly a shiny orange, with three black striped patterns going vertically over its elytron. It has some more black splotches on the top of its thorax and a band of black between its eyes

A photo of a small amber spotted ladybird beetle on the thin leaves of a spindly looking plant. The beetle has an oblong, orange body with sparse black dots on its elytron and a black thorax

🪲ID Guesses (4/6)
3: Striped Ladybird - Micraspis frenata
4: Spotted amber ladybird beetle - hippodamia variegata

A top view photo of a large spotted ladybird on the stem of a thin, light green plant. The beetle has a more yellow colour with large black spot patterns over its circular body. Its eyes look like two of its spots, and it has small clubbed antennae.

A topview photo of a large spotted ladybird larva on the end of a green leaf. It looks like a little dragon with its long, fleshy body covered in small spines. Two lumps of its body has a yellow band and the rest is a dark grey. It has six thin legs near the front half of its body. In the foreground of the photo is a striped ladybird, half the size of the larva.

Behold, an assortment of ladybird beetles (+ 1 larva) from my favourite neighbour's garden :D
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🪲ID Guesses (2/6)
1: Large spotted ladybird - Harmonia conformis
2: Large spotted ladybird (Larva) - Harmonia conformis

That's an adorable name for them :D

A side view photo of a fly standing on the side of a tree, holding a little water droplet in its mouth. The fly is mostly light grey with black legs and stripes on its abdomen, red eyes and transparent wings

LOOK at its little water droplet!
Local fly reminds you to drink water today💧

🪲ID Guess: Fly
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A top view photograph of a brush cockroach on a green leaf. Its body is a long, oblong shape, mostly covered in its large wings, and it has long antennae. It has a small head mostly observed by its rounded, triangular shaped thorax plate, where the intricately veined wings sprout from and fold neatly over the rest of its body. It is mostly yellow, with black markings in the middle of its thorax plate and on the top and bottom borders of its wings.

They're native to aus as far as I know! Maybe you've seen an adult ellipsidion before? They're commonly called a bush cockroach :D

Yea!! As if its drawn on xD so cool that they just look like that!

YEEE! My partner and I audibly gasped when we saw the little fella

YEEEEEE!!!!

A three quarter front view photograph of an ellipsidion cockroach nymph looking very small on the big green leaf it stands on. The little roach is shaped like a flat oval, each segment of its body a slightly curved plate. Each plate is a shiny black edges in a dark red. The top of its head and thorax plate has some off-white dusted on the edges, and the rest of the plates down to its abdomen are edged with thin lines and dotted lines.

LOOK AT THIS CUTIE!!!! it has little dotted lines🥹

🪲ID Guess: Ellipsidion nymph
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YEAAA thats the other side of it!! There was a beauuutiful queen mason wasp the other day, sitting still by the waters edge drinking, I could get up close to it too! But... no camera ToT

I think drawing the bugs you didnt get to photograph is the absolute best way to deal with the dissapointment😂 I love that drawing so much btw! so cute!

Very very true! The first time I got a photo of a wandering percher made my entire week :D