Rytidosperma pallidum

Themeda triandra

Echinopogon ovatus

Rytidosperma pallidum

Rytidosperma monticola

Harmonia conformis

Austrolestes analis … my first ever sighting of this species!

Leptogaster sp. … quite small (perched here on the Dianella flower buds)

Duomyia sp.

Diphucephala sp

Among the tangled branches of a large fallen tree …
Rhipidura rufifrons

Visiting the frog pond and our first sighting of the season. We’ve yet to see them on the grass tree flowers … but we’re on the lookout!
Myzomela erythrocephala

Myzomela erythrocephala

Stylidium graminifolium

Flower: Stylidium graminifolium
Bee: Exoneura

Flower: Wahlenbergia stricta

Bee: Hylaeus sp.

Flower: Wahlenbergia gracilis

Bee: Exoneura sp.

Flower: Dianella caerulea
Bee: Exoneura sp.

Flower: Dianella caerulea
Bee: Exoneura sp.

Hylaeus sp.

Low pressure systems in Spring trigger termite swarms. And the pond surface is fatally attractive.

Dolomedes sp.
She’s usually active at night, but I guess the termite swarm was too good a chance to pass up.

Atrapsalta encaustica … a small and rather cryptic species that calls from low vegetation

Thynnidae … one of the larger ones

This is the rather unusual feeding behaviour I described in a post last month (‘Getting to know flower wasps’)
Thynninae

Miturgidae … perhaps Argoctenus

Staurostichus sp.

Xanthorrhoea concava

Castiarina scalaris

Flower: Xerochrysum bracteatum

Beetle: Pempsamacra pygmaea

Flower: Coronidium scorpioides

Bee: ID a work in progress

Ectinorhynchus pyrrhotelus (a species complex) … our first sighting of this ‘species’

Microtis unifolia

identification in progress

It was not happy by my presence, boldly scolding me as I wandered past.

Acanthiza pusilla

A family has laid claim to this fallen, dead casuarina

Acanthiza pusilla

Acanthiza pusilla

Bee: Exoneura
Flower: Stylidium graminifolium

Platysace lanceolata

Flowers: Platysace lanceolata

Hover fly: Simosyrphus grandicornis

The first mature, egg-carrying female wolfy we’ve seen this season.
Venatrix australiensis

Heteronympha merope

Oriolus sagittatus … they’ve been calling loudly of late, perhaps nesting close by

Phaps chalcoptera … their low, booming calls currently a feature of the forest soundscape

Bee: Exoneura sp.
Flower: Hypericum gramineum

Flower: Pelargonium inodorum
Fly: Staurostichus sp.

Leptotarsus sp.

Meomyia

Bee: species ID a work in progress

Flower: Wahlenbergia stricta

Cylindromyia sp.

Podagritus sp.

Beetle: Pempsamacra pygmaea

Flower: Xerochrysum bracteatum

Beetle: Ethenion sp

Flower: Hypericum sp

Beetle: Eleale simplex

Flower: Xerochrysum bracteatum

Goniaea sp.

Bembix sp.