Various things, including one that was something of a surprise. The Common Shutwing dragonfly, Cordulephya pygmaea, inhabits streams and rivers, and is often seen in the riverside reserve three kilometres to the north-west. This small autumn flying species was not an expected sighting in the garden, but during the morning tree trunk inspection one was found perched on the Corymbia watsoniana.
One of the Yellow Gums produced some camera subjects, quite a number of these seed bugs, Daerlac cephalotes were in residence under bark flakes.
Further up the trunk, a wandering Uraba lugens caterpillar became caught in the web of an annoyed small spider in the Theridiidae family. There was quite a bit of interaction between the two, but eventually the caterpillar freed itself and continued on its way.
Velvet Ants, family Mutillidae, have been regulars on the tree trunks, usually wingless females, but on one occasion a winged male showed up.
Females.
A small Clerid beetle.
And up in the Omeo Gum, the baby Schellenberg’s Soldier Bugs have dispersed, leaving their rather unique empty egg cases behind.
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