A noon check of the Omeo Gum and its Autumn Gum Moth larvae, came up with a surprise. On one of the daytime shelters, a predatory shield bug had captured a larva and was beginning to feed. The first image clearly shows the piercing stylets, these suck up the bodily juices of its prey. This bug has been identified on iNaturalist as Oechalia schellenbergii, a hatching of which occurred in this tree in early March.
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More photographs were taken at intervals during the day showing the process.

By 8 PM it had moved to the head end for dessert.

Next day the bug was still there, it had apparently sucked its first prey dry and had selected a new victim when the larvae emerged at night to feed. What an appetite!

With the weather cooling, insects and the like are getting harder to find in the bush garden, these are a few snapped over the last couple of weeks. First a collection of little creatures found under a sheet of loose bark on a Yellow Gum, these are Psocids or booklice.
Thanks M J S for id.

There are still a few quite small jumping spiders to be found, probably this season’s crop.

Sandalodes superbus.

Opisthoncus? species.

There are still some wasps on the prowl, this is a female White-spotted Ichneumonid, Echthromorpha intricatoria. She uses her ovipositor to inject eggs into pupae of moths and butterflies, particularly the admiral family.

A wasp mating pair, male and wingless female.

A longicorn beetle that came to the moth light, Symphyletes nodusus.

And Phoracantha semipunctata, the Common Eucalypt Longhorn.

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