by Peter Rowland | Sunday, October 18, 2020
Iridescent Flutterer Scientific Name: Rhyothemis braganza Size: Wingspan 85 mm What does it look like? The adult Iridescent Flutterer is blackish with broad, membranous wings, each having dark, metallic purplish-black basal patches of similar length and transparent...
by Peter Rowland | Sunday, October 18, 2020
House Fly Scientific Name: Musca domestica Size: Total Length 8mm What does it look like? The House Fly thorax and abdomen is greyish (although the abdomen is paler), with four blackish longitudinal lines on the thorax, and a single pair of transparent triangular...
by Peter Rowland | Thursday, November 12, 2020
Green Ant Workers carrying a larvae Nest Scientific Name: Oecophylla smaragdina Size: Total Length (adult workers) 8-12 mm What does it look like? The Green Ant (or Green Tree Ant) is mostly orange with bright green abdomen (gaster). The colony has a single queen,...
by Peter Rowland | Saturday, February 26, 2022
Graphic Flutterer (Photographer: Thomas Rowland) Scientific Name: Rhyothemis graphiptera Size: Total Length 50mm; Wingspan 70mm What does it look like? The mature Graphic Flutterer has yellowish-brown wings, each with large dark metallic brown patches (not at tips)....
by Peter Rowland | Saturday, October 17, 2020
Common Grass-blue Scientific Name: Zizina otis Size: Wingspan 20 to 23 mm What does it look like? Upper surface of the Common Grass-blue male’s wings are almost entirely purplish blue, concentrated towards the centre of wings of female, remainder of upper surface...
