Spring ’26 #3

Another check of the garden tree trunks produced these.

A jumping spider, genus Holoplatys.

Female and male Two-tailed Spiders, genus Tamopsis.

Female

The much smaller male.

A tiny native cockroach, 3.5 mm long, Ellipsidion australe.

Larva of the moth Uraba lugens.

And below the big Yellow Gum, ant lion pits.

Red Wattlebird.

The waratah is in full bloom, and a Red Wattlebird is taking advantage of the plentiful nectar, the only species of honeyeater to do so in all the years it has flowered. And, it is only for the last couple of years that this has happened. Click to enlarge.

And after feeding, a bath to get rid of the stickiness is in order.