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Here are some photos i managed to take over the years ...

Orb Web Spider sitting next to it's web , notice how it's leg is holding a piece of silk so it can feel when the web moves - photo 4 .

This is another Huntsman from Maude , NSW , 2/2000 - photo 2 .

Dragonfly on log at Lake Eppalock, around 1999 / 2000 - photo 5 .

Two photos of Bumblebees taken at Whitemans Valley , Upper Hutt , NZ , around 1982 - photos 1 & 6 .

Botany Bay Weevil on Wattle Tree banch near Eildon around 1999 / 2000 - photo 3 .

Red Admiral Butterfly in NZ , this species is endemic to NZ as it's Caterpillars live on NZ Bush Nettle -photo 7 .

Yellow Admiral on gum tree , Maude , NSW , 2/2000 - photo 8 .

Nephila Spider in web strung across a track on Xmas Island in 2011 when i was working there , it was about 100 mm across by 150 mm down .... i wanted to bring it home so bad - photo 9 .
These are the trees the Nephila Spider had it's web between over the track , i got my mate in the photo for some size perspective - photo 16 .

Sorry the descriptions are out of order , my phone rearranged them when i submitted them .

RECENT PHOTOS



Juvenile Katydid sp. on wildflower in Kimbolton State Forest , Eppalock , Jan this year (2022) , the Forest was smothered in flowers due to wet spring , best I've seen in many years - photo 10 .

Unidentified Moth found on Wattle Tree on Zig Zag Rd , Tulla Vale ..... No longer unidentified .... Bert tells me it's from the Lasciocampidae family , Genduara genus - photo 11 .

Ye olde Harlequin Bug - photos 12 & 13 .

Meat Ants attending a Leafhopper species - photos 14 & 15 .

My brother in law caught a Praying Mantis and brought it around but i didn't have the heart to kill it , I've got a soft spot for them , i think they're awesome , so i put it out the back and took a pic - photo 17 .

Was fluffing around in the garden a little while ago (24/3/23) near a lavender bush and i stumbled across this - photos 18 & 19 .

Another close-up of an Orb Web Spider holding a line attached to it's web while it hides on a tree (same thing as photo 4 ) This big one was in the Heathcote/Graytown National Park - photo 20 .