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I was just about to say: "What spider"? Interesting an ingenious one

Great pic
The family Thomisidae is one of the largest of all the spider families , with 175 genera , and more than 2000 species , and they very colourful .
They like to sit on flowers , and of course , mimic the colours

Thank you very much everyone for the most informative comments.

arks wrote:Can anyone help with an ID for these insects, seen in my garden in Darling on mid-December 2015.


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3. This is a little big riding on the back of the above beetle

Garden Fruit Chafer Pachnoda sinuata

Lovely photo of yellow and pink fusion

Thanks for your help with the crab, katydid and garden fruit chafer Toko

I realised that I made a typo here, it's a little BUG riding on the back of the beetle. Any ideas on what it might be?

arks wrote:3. This is a little big riding on the back of the above beetle

A Blowfly

Thanks Toko

I'd thought that those pinkish wings might indicate something unusual, but perhaps it's merely a reflection from the pink of the rose? And that chafer was spectacular! It seems that lots of interesting insects are attracted to roses, but this was one of the most dramatic that I've seen.

I remember those Chafer beetles from when I was small. My mom loved roses and had hundreds in the garden so those beetles were all over the place, even in the house!

The specimen shown in this thread as Trichoplusia ni does not look like that species at all. I am not totally sure, what it is, but looks somewhat similar to a Chrysodeixis near C. acuta...

I am referring to the post starting:

AW Insect Book: Moths (Lepidoptera) Noctuidae Plusiinae

Postby BluTuna » Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:52 am