by Peter Rowland | Friday, November 13, 2020
Magnetic Termites Scientific Name: Amitermes meridionalis Size: Total Length 6 mm (soldier) What does it look like? The Magnetic Termite soldier has a yellowish head and dark mandibles curved inward with single ‘tooth’. Workers pale, alates brown with pale wings. ...
by Peter Rowland | Monday, October 19, 2020
Monarch Butterfly Adult Larva (Caterpillar) Scientific Name: Danaus plexippus Size: Wingspan 90-100 mm What does it look like? The adult Monarch Butterfly wing is orange, with ornate pattern of thin black lines and broad black margins on each wing. Black margins...
by Peter Rowland | Monday, October 19, 2020
Mottled Flower Scarab Scientific Name: Protaetia fusca Size: 17 mm What does it look like? The Mottled Flower Scarab is a small, usually shiny dark-coloured rounded beetle, with broad shovel-like head and pronotum, small fan-like antennae, may have hairs on underside...
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...
