With the weather cooling, camera subjects are getting harder to find. These are a few not previously published, starting with a garden orb-weaver that by coincidence had its web beside the moth sheet and light.

One of its victims, an adult ant lion lacewing that came in to the light.

Another small silky spider, unidentified, on the Omeo Gum.

A lacewing species prevalent at the moment, Stenosmylus stenopterus.

There have still been a few wasps about, two Ichneumons,

And a Hatchet Wasp from a while ago.

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Various things, including one that was something of a surprise. The Common Shutwing dragonfly, Cordulephya pygmaea, inhabits streams and rivers, and is often seen in the riverside reserve three kilometres to the north-west. This small autumn flying species was not an expected sighting in the garden, but during the morning tree trunk inspection one was found perched on the Corymbia watsoniana.

One of the Yellow Gums produced some camera subjects, quite a number of these seed bugs, Daerlac cephalotes were in residence under bark flakes.

Further up the trunk, a wandering Uraba lugens caterpillar became caught in the web of an annoyed small spider in the Theridiidae family. There was quite a bit of interaction between the two, but eventually the caterpillar freed itself and continued on its way.

Velvet Ants, family Mutillidae, have been regulars on the tree trunks, usually wingless females, but on one occasion a winged male showed up.

Females.

A small Clerid beetle.

And up in the Omeo Gum, the baby Schellenberg’s Soldier Bugs have dispersed, leaving their rather unique empty egg cases behind.

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