#australianinsect

"Sapphire Rockmaster dragonflies". From series: "For the Love of Wild life". Etching, aquatint & china-colle

"Funnel web spider". From series: "For the Love Wild". Etching, aquatint

"Blue-bended Australian native bee". From series: "For the Love of Wild life". Etching, aquatint & chine-colle.

Some grasshoppers from the outback of Australia.

Close encounters of the gardening kind...I came across the weevil while I was weeding yesterday. It was hanging upside down, pretending to be dead, but it gave itself away by wiggling it's antennae. Apparently what looks like an eye isn't an eye, and I clipped on the macro lens to get a better look! The spider's egg sack blew down from somewhere, empty apart from a couple of tiny discarded skins. Last image is a fuzzy leaf of Greater Mullien. #weevil #australianinsect #gardening #macro #nature #naturephotography #backyard #backyardwildlife #spidereggsack #greatermullien #blanketleaf #lookcloser (at Moyston, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUB1qTrh9Xu/?utm_medium=tumblr

A stick insect on a Cymdibium suave in the bushland of northern Sydney Australia. (I have no knowledge of the relationship between these two species)

Beautiful, if imperfect, things around my garden. I found the discarded lizard skin while gardening - it's inside out. The spider was dangling from my hair - I could see "something " from the corner of my eye and finally investigated properly to find I had a pin-head sized passenger! So many tiny spiders out there.😮 #gardening #backyard #backyardwildlife #australianinsect #cicada #nymphcase #backyardwildlife #australianspider #honesty #honestypods #gumblossom #pinkflower #australianreptile #stumpytail #rosehip #nature #naturephotography #macro (at Moyston, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL0og8ZLsOd/?igshid=1cq76kmkq7cx1

A posy worth bottling - so much fragrance in that handful! The lilac has just opened, also the white banksia rose (which smells like violets), freesias and wallflowers and dianthus flower on and on for weeks or months and all smell delicious. The pink climbing tea rose isn't always that vivid, which is a shame.😁 #gardening #backyard #backyardwildlife #australianinsect #bouquet #posy #fragrantflowers #lilactime #freesias #roses #banksiarose #wallflowers #ranunculus #anemone #gardenflowers (at Moyston, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF6Yi-PBZJ4/?igshid=us4k4dph651g