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• Chrysomelidae spp. Leaf Beetle

  09 Mar 2019 • -37.3,144.5 • Wendy Moore

  fly egg on one

  

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• Cordyceps gunnii

  30 May 2016 • -37.9,145.4 • Mark Ridgway

  Many dozens of these were found under large, bipinate acacia.. (maybe A dealbata). Known to parasitise Oxycana sp moth larvae.

  

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• Hyposoter spp.

  28 Mar 2015 • -37.9,145.3 • Leuba Ridgway

  Looking like a 5 mm piece of bird-dropping, this little black and white capsule is a cocoon of an ichneumon wasp. It was attached to the leaves on this young tree and wrapped around it was the skin of its larval host - a lepidopteran. Mimicking bird-dropping and wrapping the skin of the larval host over and around is, apparently, one of the many strategies employed by ichneumonids to escape attacks from hyperparasitoids. Spotted on a young black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) in a nature reserve.

  

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  1. Chris Lindorff  Hi Leuba. I have added Hyposoter spp. There are very few records of Hyposoter species on the ALA, so great find.

     Reply • 02 Apr 2015

  2. • Leuba Ridgway  Thank you Chris. I almost missed it !

       Reply • 09 Apr 2015
• Tachinidae spp.

  11 Dec 2014 • -37.9,145.3 • Mark Ridgway

  Cup-moth parasite fly. About 9 months earlier I found a moth cocoon which was slightly unusual in size, colour and location so I decided to grow it out. Today shock, horror and delight when a prickly looking fly opened the lid, climbed out and stretched it's wings. On a Grevillea stem growing closely entwined with a small eucalyptus tree in a local nature reserve. Victim was Doratifera vulnerans - Mottled Cup Moth This one is Tachinidae probably Winthemia genus.

  

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• Aphidoidea spp. Aphid

  26 Apr 2014 • -37.4,144.6 • David Francis

  Aphids on Camellia bud. Light-coloured "mummies", some after parasitic wasps have exited.

  

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