blue ant
The wingless, ground-dwelling female Blue Ants are bright metallic blue or green, and can sometimes be mistaken for a large ant. However they are a solitary wasp species, with fully winged males, and can often be found on flowers.
fire ant
Fire ants are nasty, stinging, swarming ants. Every year they cost Americans more than $6 Billion in property damage, hospital trips, skin treatments and fire ant control efforts. Because of their attraction to electricity, fire ants are responsible for knocking out street lights, airport runway lights and countless household electrical devices. Every year, fire ant swarms delivering potent venom through their stingers, kill pets, small animals and a number of unfortunate humans.
hoverfly
Hover Flies belong to a large family of small to big flies. They are true flies or Diptera, with only one pair of wings in the Family Syrphidae.Hoverflies have spots, bands or stripes, of yellow, brown against a dark-coloured background, sometimes with dense hair covering the body surface. Their fast flight, motionless flight and, in some species, their size are astonishing feats. Some Hovers are among the biggest flies of Central Europe. Many species are very colorful. It is not always that easy to identify hover flies. Some thick-headed flies and bee flies are similar and dark coloration makes it hard to identify them correctly at a glance. Bee flies tend to be longer hairy, have snouts and are a study in themselves!
assassin bug
As you may have guessed, the assassin bug is a predatory bug that will use its sucking-piercing mouth parts to feed on other insects. Not to let you down, these bugs get their name from their hunting style. You see they tend to remain concealed and still until they ambush any unfortunate prey going for a nice stroll. In one quick and accurate strike they will inject a deadly poison into their prey. This is the gross part folks! This poison will cause the tissues to break down so the assassin bug can simply suck up their food like a McDonald’s milkshake.
blowfly
Blow flies belong to the Family Calliphoridae of flies under Order Diptera. To date, there are approximately 1,100 species of blowflies worldwide. Blow flies are often metallic in appearance, with feathery hairs on the terminal antennal segments. Adult blow flies have sponge-like mouth parts, while maggots have hook-like mouth parts.Female blow flies typically lay their eggs on dead meat, where maggots hatch within six to 48 hours.
common grass blue
The Common Grass Blue is a small butterfly with a bluish lilac colour. The caterpillars are harder to find. They camouflage well among the grass and clover on which they feed.The upper side of the wings of the Common Grass-blue is coloured a delicate mauve-blue in the males, sometimes tending to slightly more purple or blue, with a narrow brown margin.
damsel bug
Adult damsel bugs are 3/8 to 1/2-inch long, tan to reddish brown and slender, with the body tapering toward the head. Nymphal stages are similar but lack fully developed wings. Legs are relatively long with the front pair enlarged slightly to capture prey. The head bears long four-segmented antennae and a four-segmented beak (rostrum). The beak is held underneath the body when at rest but is capable of being extended to pierce prey.
gasteruptiid wasp
We sometimes see something long and thin, hovering near tree log moving forward and backward very quick. It is so quick that we cannot recognize what they are. They are the Gasteruptiid Wasp checking if there are the bee or wasp nests that they can lay eggs on. The wasp was resting upside-down on a dry grass, advertising its white tip.
meat ant
Meat Ants are also known as Mount Ants or Tyrant Ants. Meat Ants are quite the large ants, with long legs and large head. Their abdomen is black in colour with dark red head. Their nest is in soil on ground. They are common in Brisbane bushes.Meat Ants are general predators and scavengers. They also tend soft-bug, such as aphids, to collect honeydew. The ants are active the whole year. They are fast running and foraging in large number.
katydid
katydid, any of numerous predominantly nocturnal insects related to crickets and grasshoppers and noted for their loud mating calls. Katydids have large hind legs and are distinguished by their extremely long, threadlike antennae and the thick, upwardly curved ovipositor (egg-laying structure) of the females. Often large and green, many katydids have long wings, but some common species are nearly wingless.