While our interest in nature remains broad-ranging, invertebrates are our passion … and wasps and sawflies a growing obsession. For convenience, the hub pages below aggregate our working notes, identification tools, and ecological blog posts by wasp taxon.
The collection can only grow!
Although bees are not my main focus, I have taken the opportunity to take a closer look at some of those turning up in the Malaise traps this year (as part of our participation in the International Barcode of Life project).
Summary matrices and resources for species level identification of Ropalidia and Polistes (VESPIDAE: Polistinae) known to occur in NSW, Vic, and/or SA.
Australian Megalyridae, all within the single genus Megalyra: summaries, resources, references and links to related blog posts.
Australian Ichneumonidae & Braconidae: summaries, resources, references and links to related blog posts.
Australian Thynninae: summaries, resources, references and links to related blog posts.
Australian Crabronidae: summaries, resources, references and links to related blog posts.
A suite of resources to aid identification of Australian sawflies (Tenthredinoidea) from field photos, including: tables listing diagnostic features of taxa at subfamily, genus and species levels; images from the taxonomic literature, type and BOLD specimens; and references to primary literature.
