Torbia perficita - a large katydid which is a frequent visitor to lightsheets in mid autumn. We reared this species from the egg right through to adulthood on eucalypt foliage. You can read the full story in our blog Growing Up.

The adults lay their eggs in a row on a eucalypt stem in autumn and probably die soon thereafter. The eggs overwinter in a state of arrested development, called diapause, and hatch in late October. They reach the adult stage in mid-late January.

Trigonidium sp., close to Trigonidium marroo - a very pleasing little cricket, which became increasingly common in mid autumn. This one is a male. Little is known about their biology, apart from their preferred habitat, which is amongst grasses and forbs.

Bobilla sp. - we always seem to get a burst of these small, ground-dwelling crickets in early autumn and this year was no exception. The male, shown here, produces his mating call by rubbing the tiny teeth on a vein of one of the forewings over the other wing.