#83 to #86

I was lucky enough to find a unicorn darner in the front yard as I drove into the driveway recently. It stayed put long enough for me to run in, get the camera, and fire off just one photo before it took off rapidly.

#84 Austroaeschna unicornis

We went to the beach at Anglesea over the Labour Day long weekend, and amongst other things I found a species of drone fly that I have not seen before...

#84 Eristalinus aeneus

This week's visit to Woodlands Historic Park was a hard slog, as there wasn't very much of anything around. I did find an interesting bee for the park list (and this list) as well as a lone pied lacewing that was just too far away to get a good photo of, so I'll have to put up with this average one!

#85 Lipotriches (Austronomia) flavoviridis

#86 Porismus strigatus

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#80 to #82 pending IDs that have been identified via bowerbord.org.au

I've managed to receive a few IDs for photos taken earlier in the year after posting images on bowerbird.org.au

#80 Campion tenuistrigus

#81 Chortoicetes terminifera

#82 Distoleon bistrigatus

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#72 to #79 at Woodlands Historic Park

Yes, I've been back to Woodlands Historic Park to see what I could see, and I managed to find some very interesting insects, including a few rare ones!

#72 Junonia villida calybe (Meadow argus)

#73 Philagra parva

#74 Aporocera (Aporocera) consors

#75 Snellenia lineata (Lycid mimic moth)

#76 Campion australasiae

#77 Epidesmia tryxaria

#78 Dispar compacta

#79 Ogyris abrota (Dark purple azure) (Sorry about the poor photo, but this is a rare butterfly and it was quite flighty and I could only get distant photos)

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#65 to #71 around home and then back to Woodlands Historic Park

I managed to find a garden mantis amongst the remnants of what was once the front garden (it's now mostly weeds and grass that is way too long)

#65 Pseudomantis albofimbriata

I also spent some time photographing the very, very common but still beautiful harlequin bugs that frequent my parents back garden in Hoppers Crossing.

#66 Dindymus versicolor

Then last Saturday morning (February 17 2018) I went back to Woodlands Historic Park to see if I could find some more insects for the park list. I would have found many, many more insects this year if I had travelled even short distances, but I'm not trying to find as many as I can, I'm simply recording what I do find. And I did manage to find a few new ones for the park!

#67 Cadmus excrementiata

#68 Taenogerella elizabethae

#69 Rhinophthalmus nasutus

#70 Phaulacridium vittatum

#71 Lophyrotoma analis

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#61 to #64 at Woodlands Historic Park, Victoria, Australia, February 3 2018

#61 Macrobathra chrysotoxa

#62 Opodiphthera eucalypti

#63 Rhinotia suturalis

#64 Amorbus alternatus

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#55 to #60 at Woodlands Historic Park, Victoria, Australia, January 26 2018

Once again I made my way to Woodlands Historic Park to see what I could see. I had the morning to myself and considered many places to go. I know I would find a lot more for this list and my own curiosity at other locations further away from home, but the idea of exploring the park and finding something new is even more appealing. And that's exactly what I did! It was a very humid morning and the park was quite wet from a torrential downpour the night before. But I persisted through the heat with sweat dripping from my head and getting all over my glasses making it very hard to see or take photos. I had a great time!

#55 Endotricha pyrosalis

I originally had this as #56 Paropsis lownei but I have removed it from the list and adjusted the numbering because it is impossible to separate P. lownei and P. variolosa visually and they both occur in Victoria

#56 Syringoseca rhodoxantha

#57 Megachile lucidiventris

#58 Dieuches maculicollis

#59 Spectrotrota fimbrialis

#60 Austrolestes cingulatus

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#51 to #54 at Altona, Victoria, Australia, January 25 2018

#51 Abispa (Abispa) ephippium

I found a flowering shrub near the Laverton Creek mouth that was quite popular with the insects. I've included a not 100% certain identification of a wasp that I'm 99% sure is Abispa (Abispa) ephippium.

#52 Hellula hydralis

#53 Theclinesthes serpentata serpentata

#54 Uraba lugens

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