Bushpea Australian Insects274 species
Insect Group List
- Ants Dolichoderinae
- Ants Ectatomminae
- Ants Formicinae
- Ants Myrmeciinae
- Ants Myrmicinae
- Bees
- Beetles Ladybirds
- Beetles Leaf Beetles
- Beetles Miscellaneous
- Bugs
- Cockroaches
- Flies Bee-Flies
- Flies Blowflies
- Flies Crane Flies
- Flies Hover Flies
- Flies Robber Flies
- Flies Miscellaneous
- Grasshoppers Crickets
- Lacewings
- Mantids & Phasmids
- Moths Geometridae
- Moths Noctuidae
- Moths Miscellaneous
- Scorpionflies
- Termites
- Wasps Ichneumon Wasps
- Wasps Potter Wasps
- Wasps Spider Wasps
- Wasps Miscellaneous
 01.jpg "Vik: Robber Fly (Phellus piliferus) - 18/01/2009")
Robber Fly
(Phellus piliferus)
March Fly
Gumleaf Grasshopper
 03.jpg "Vik: Scorpionfly (Harpobittacus australis) - 12/10/2014")
Scorpionfly
(Harpobittacus australis)
Cuckoo Wasp
(Chrysis sp)
Bushpea Insects
(The six-legged things you find when looking for birds)
The Bushpea Gallery currently holds 848 photos of 274 Australian insect species.
Butterfly photographs have been placed separately in Larry's Australian Butterflies pages.
Dragonfly and Damselfly photographs appear separately in the Australian Dragonflies pages.
Insects make up half of Earth's known living organisms so it's not surprising that we see lots of them when enjoying the bush. Closely observing insects reveals a world of colourful and fascinating creatures living amazing lives and can be very distractive from birding.
Over the years I've been bitten by many of the ones that bite and stung by many of those that sting, but not usually by the ones I'm watching at the time, which is perhaps another good reason to pay attention to them.
The photographs here are mostly taken by natural light and the insects themselves not interfered with other than the unavoidable close presence of that great clod, the photographer, doing his or her best to be invisible and unthreatening.