Cochineal scale (Dactylopius) on Opuntia cactus, north of Moree, NSW. Heavy infestation but not much damage to plant. Both are introductions to Australia.

07.12.2025 04:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cute little bauble-like galls induced by the scale insect Casuarinaloma on Allocasuarina, seen alongside the Newell Hwy north of Dubbo. #austentsoc #insects

01.12.2025 02:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Insect of the year votes are in and bug lovers are all a-flutter What flies like a helicopter and devours mosquitoes? Meet the 2025 ABC Australian Insect of the Year.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

07.11.2025 08:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Vote for your 2025 ABC Australian Insect Of the year"

This year, the ABC's audience will determine Australia's Insect of the Year!
Polling will open on October 4 on the ABC website, where you can pick your favourite.

#InsectOfTheYear2025 #ABCNews

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

04.10.2025 03:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

I think it might be an archaeococcoid scale insect. How big was it, and where was it?

22.09.2025 06:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Two white cup-shaped growths sprout from a leaf.

Just some of the insects that can induce galls include gall wasps, gall flies, aphids, scale insects, gall midges, and weevils ... but the list goes on. People estimate that there are over 210,000 gall insect species alone, many of which we likely have yet to formally describe.

10.09.2025 19:05 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

This package has data that can be used instead of nycflights13 to teach joins, and also to look at temporal trends and draw maps. It has to coolest hexsticker vahdatjavad.github.io/ecotourism/ and cute creatures: mantarays, gouldian finches, glow worms and orchids

19.09.2025 10:33 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0