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DiBickers wrote:
18 min ago
European wasps are aggressive hunters of insects and spiders, which they feed to their larvae. The adults themselves eat pollen, nectar, other carbohydrates and secretions produced by their young. This wasp out-competes native species for food resources as well as virtually depleting an area of its insect and spider fauna. Vespula germanica also has a large negative impact on human receation activities. Nests should be reported.

"A typical European wasp nest is started in the spring by a single queen emerging from hibernation. She raises the first worker wasps herself, which then help her raise more workers, and so the nest grows through the summer. Come the autumn most workers die out while the newly born queens search for a warm, dark place to hibernate." (Dr Reeson, Adelaide University)

Other online resources:

https://museumvictoria.com.au/wasps/

https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/science/plants-animals-fungi/animals/invertebrates/invasive-invertebrates/wasps
Vespula (Genus)
donhe wrote:
35 min ago
I think that right hindwing looks like E. bispinaria, and left hindwing like E. excursaria.
Ectropis (genus)
donhe wrote:
4 hrs ago
The BOLD specimens of O. omoscopa show very variable pale patches, many not L-R symmetrical, so I think the scales are very loose and fall off revealing random pale patches, consistent with those on this specimen.
Opogona omoscopa
DonFletcher wrote:
4 hrs ago
This is the one we call Rambo
Varanus rosenbergi
ibaird wrote:
Yesterday
Despite the abovew, see here:-
https://v4.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?searchMenu=taxonomy&query=Glyphipterix+drosophaes&taxon=Glyphipterix+drosophaes
Glyphipterix drosophaes

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Valenzuela (Genus) at Melba, ACT

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Stellaria pungens

Abantiades (genus) at Bowning, NSW

Culladia cuneiferellus at Wodonga, VIC

Ectropis (genus) at Moruya, NSW

Unplaced (Boarmia) polysticta at Bolivia, NSW

Chrysocephalum semipapposum

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