A DRAGON FLOWER MANTIS!!!!🤯🤯🤯
STOP whatever you are doing RIGHT NOW! 🚨🐉
This mantis nearly made my heart give out! The Dragon Flower Mantis (Toxodera integrifolia) from Malaysia is by far the most amazing insect I’ve so far had the pleasure of meeting!!! 🌳
Their incredible colour, shape and movement help them blend into the tropical flowers of the rainforest where they both avoid predation and can catch unsuspecting prey!! 🦋
JUST LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY!!! 🤩
This was found at the MCM Nature Discovery Villa at Frasers Hill!! 🌸
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BUGS!!!! RAIN IN THE DESERT OMG!!! ⛈️🏜️🤯
The central Australian deserts explode with activity after rain!!!! 🦂😍
I was so lucky to experience a night of action last month when a late afternoon storm brought out a whole heap of critters I’ve never seen before!! 🐸
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IT’S MUDDY MADNESS!!! 🤯🤎
How FUNNY are Mudskippers!! 😍
They always scooting around on the mud like wow! I love the beautiful orange dots on this species (Takita Mudskippers!) and the way they look at you too 🤓😂
They will feed on the mud at low tide and push into the mangroves when the tide rises! 🌊
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MAMA AMAZON FLOWER MANTIS! 🤯
What a present! One of the most beautiful mantids in the neotropics laid an ootheca on our DOOR! 🥰🌿
What a dream to see Callibia diana in the wild - and after freshly laying eggs… WOW! 🤩
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Some Amazonian Caterpillars! ✨🐛
Which one is your favourite? 🤔
The diversity of caterpillars is almost endless in the tropical rainforest and it’s always so exciting to find beauties like these! 🥰🌿
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IT’S THE FAMOUS CATERPILLAR! 🐛🤯
The BEAUTIFUL caterpillar that remained a mystery for so long until @gwentomologist raised one last year - Manduca neglecta! 🧡💙
Seeing the caterpillar in the wild was an an absolute dream come true for me, another amazing find here at Manu! 🌳
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Australia’s newest BUG has just dropped and it’s a SKILLED KILLER that SUCKS ANTS ALIVE! 🤯🐜
Meet the Larrakia’s Feather Leg Assassin that is described from the savannah woodlands of the Top End. ☀️
This genus has an incredibly unique way of finding prey, an organ called a trichome under its body that releases a secretion to lure the interest of ants! Once an ant pushes its way underneath the body of the Assassin Bug to try and figure out the scent - BAM the Assassin shoves its proboscis deep into the back of its neck subdue it and then proceeds to SUCK the ant inside out! Charming! 😱
I have been so excited to share these photos I took in October 2023 when Daniel Bardey and his team from Oxford University were here visiting Darwin to find any potential new Ptilocnemus species. 🔍
The following day that he found the first specimens in Charles Darwin National Park, I found this beauty in the rocky woodlands near Noonamah - it was fate! Such an incredible new species to the super biodiverse humid woodlands of the Top End! 🤩🍂
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LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY! 🤯🪲
Do Victorians know that there are over 250 INSANE Jewel Beetles in the state? This STUNNER was literally found 25 minutes from MELBOURNE CBD - THINK ABOUT THAT! 🌈
Wowwwwww it’s the best. We found this and 15 other Jewel Beetle species in a DAY in January! I WANT TO SEE MORE! NOW! But I have to wait till NEXT SUMMER! ☀️🙏🥺
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CHECK THIS OUT! 🤯
One of the coolest moths in the Amazon, this beauty mimics toxic Tortoise Beetles to avoid predation! 👀
The beetle incorporate toxins from the plants they eat as larvae and then show off these aposematic colour as adults so birds don’t eat them! 🐦
How cool is nature? ❤️🖤
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Massive Rhino Beetle!! 😍🖤
One of the most impressive beetles in the Amazon is Enema pan, a BIG species that breeds at the base of bamboo! 🎋
The females of this species have a small horn, whilst the males have these stunning large horns! 🪲
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Photographer ➡️ Mudskippers! 🤎
Getting MUDDY for my FAVOURITE animals on earth! ✨
These fish live in the mangroves where they are super skittish and hard to get close to, so the best way to get photos is to BECOME a Mudskipper! 😂
I miss doing this in the crocodile-inhabited mangroves of Darwin so much!! 🥹🐟
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WASP OR MOTH!? 🐝🤯
One of the most incredible mimics in the world, this Tiger Moth (Orcynia calcarata) looks so much like a wasp I was almost nervous holding it! 😳
It always amazes me how evolution has driven so many species of insects in the Amazon to mimic wasps, with tiger moths leading the charge with literally dozens of wasp-looking-a-likes here at Manu! 😯🌳
How amazing is nature! 💛🖤
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