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Time for another face, a tachinid from the forest. I don't seem to have seen this species before. It...

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Uploaded on Feb 26, 2012  |  Map

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This picture is really for the Girraween NP collection! A common species in the Granite Belt, often will...

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Uploaded on Feb 25, 2012  |  Map

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Of the pompilid wasp, being dragged down the burrow! Before the adjacent video was taken. Note the fly...

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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2012  |  Map

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This video need to be watched closely to see the action! Best seen large if possible. It shows a...

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Uploaded on Feb 23, 2012  |  Map

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A stiletto-fly, Agapophytus sitting on a tree trunk in Girraween NP. These look and behave like solitary wasps. One for Shaun.

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Uploaded on Feb 23, 2012  |  Map

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This large bee-fly is commonly seen on open spaces in the Park, especially paths where they fly up and...

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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012  |  Map

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A Eulamprus quoyii by the Junction Path, Girraween NP. Must have freshly shed its skin it was so bright! About 30cm.

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Uploaded on Feb 21, 2012  |  Map

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An asilid doing what a number of species do; using the bare patch, part of a path, to hunt and sun. A...

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Uploaded on Feb 19, 2012  |  Map

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This view I have done to death! Head of female Scaptia guttata. Photo compiled from a stack of 45...

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Uploaded on Feb 16, 2012  |  Map

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And sand! As in the preceding photo this is a view of the Maranoa River upstream from the township of...

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Uploaded on Feb 14, 2012  |  Map

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The Maranoa upstream from Mitchell after the devastating flood this month. Taken by Anthony Ellem, a...

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Uploaded on Feb 13, 2012  |  Map

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A Thraxan female bee-fly doing what this group of bee-flies likes doing! I have a couple more photos of this behavior!

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Uploaded on Feb 12, 2012  |  Map

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There seems to be a green theme at the moment; this tiny Odontomyia was purloined by me from a small...

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Uploaded on Feb 10, 2012  |  Map

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Another species of katydid, browsing on a Xerochrysum flower. Possibly Caedicia simplex.

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Uploaded on Feb 9, 2012  |  Map

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A katydid!

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Uploaded on Feb 8, 2012  |  Map

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A video of a rolling maul of 'spitfire' larvae, probably Perga species. The larvae tap with their tails, very fast but it makes an audible 'click'.

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Uploaded on Feb 6, 2012  |  Map

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A view from the verandah of a house on the banks of the Maranoa just upstream from Mitchell a few hours...

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Uploaded on Feb 5, 2012  |  Map

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These heroglyphs on the surface of a dead standing Eucalyptus. Appears to be several different origins!

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Uploaded on Feb 4, 2012  |  Map

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