SOME OF THE CREATURES ENCOUNTERED DURING THE WEEK
AT THE
DAINTREE RAINFOREST OBSERVATORY
CONTINUED
Photos by David Rentz and Buck Richardson
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Heading to the Study Site.
Sorting the catch
A rainforest Grasshopper,
Desmoptera truncatipennisA Water Strider, family Gerridae
A Longicorne beetle, family Cerambycidae
The dreaded Orchid Butterfly. The caterpillars are death to the flowers of certain orchids.
A rainforest cockroach,
Rhabdoblatta sp.
Methana curvigera, female with egg case. A common rainforest cockroach
The Pandanus Cockroach,
Megamareta phaneropyga The Pandanus Cockroach,
Megamareta phaneropyga on Pandanus. The feeding mark is made by
the Peppermint Stick Insect.
A female gryllacridid,
Chauliogryllacris acaropenatesA female nymph of a different gryllacridid,
Xanthogryllacris punctipennis. Gryllacridid nymphs always have the ovipositor recoiled on the top of the abdomen. With the final moult, the ovipositor becomes straight as in the adult female above.
A last instar female
Mastigaphoides tuberculatus- a common understorey katydid
Acauloplacella queenslandica.second last instar nymph. Also a common inhabitant of the rainforest understory.
Tailed Emperor
Polyura sampronius
Beetle Rhipiphoridae, Trigonodera sp
Dichomeris ochreoviridella Anomis sp
Antitrygodes parvimacula Banisia myrsusalis thyridid
crambid
Crocanthes sidonia Cryptophasa sp
geometer
hawkmoth
hawkmoth
Homona sp
Hypena gypsospila Meliattha sp
Mocis trifasciataNeostauropus viridiissimus odd crambid
Palpita annulata Syntonarcha iriastis Unknown
Utetheisa sp
A Red-Bellied Blacksnake takes a peak from its lair in a rockpile. It was a bit too close to the student quarters and had to be moved.
The snake was not aggressive and was placed in a bucket and moved to another spot where it would not be a threat to students and staff.
A Carpet Snake, a python, abroad at night.
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