by Peter Rowland | Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Southern Old Lady (Moon) Moth Scientific Name: Dasypodia selenophora Size: Wingspan up to 90mm What does it look like? The adult Southern Old Lady or Moon Moth is brown above, patterned with darker lines and a large blue, brown and black semicircular eyespot on each...
by Peter Rowland | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Tropical House Cricket Scientific Name: Gryllodes sigillatus Size: Total Length 12-22 mm What does it look like? The Tropical House Cricket is pale yellowish-brown with a single black transverse line between eyes. Body dorsoventrally flattened. Adult male with wings,...
by Peter Rowland | Monday, October 19, 2020
Robber Fly Scientific Name: Colepia ingloria Size: Total Length 30 mm What does it look like? The Robber Fly is large, grey and brown, with reddish legs and greyish-brown wings not extending beyond tip of abdomen. Where is it found? It occurs in eastern Australia,...
by Peter Rowland | Monday, October 19, 2020
March Fly Scientific Name: Tabanus australicus Size: Total Length 13 mm What does it look like? The March Fly is solidly built with large reflective, iridescent eyes, which meet in the middle in males. The eyes are larger than those of the Stable Fly, and are green in...
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...
