A wander around the garden provided the camera with more subjects than have been available for quite some time. The first was a Eucalyptus Longhorn Beetle, Phorocanthus species that was sheltering behind a loose bark flake on a Yellow Gum.

On to a Red Gum with a Plague Soldier Beetle, Chauliognathus lugubris,

And a Bull Ant, Complex Myrmecia pilosula.

On a White Brittle Gum, a wasp, genus Callibracon,

A Pied Lacewing, Porismus strigatus,

And a moth larva, yet to be identified.

With autumn here, leaf-curling spiders are hanging everywhere on the shrubs, normally with an easily curled leaf utilised for a shelter. This one was however much more impressive, imagine the work the spider had to perform to fashion this  imposing residence.

Into the last month of summer and the unusual season continues. Normally the Yellow-banded Dart is a common butterfly, but it has been conspicuous by its absence, with only two having been sighted. On the other hand a friend recently sighted several Splendid Ochre butterflies, Trapezites symmomus, this is one of his photos.

A wander around the garden yielded just two photos, a Tachinid or bristle fly, genus Prodiaphania, one of a few noticed,

and a Grooved Jumping Spider, Holoplatys planissima.

And although the bulk of the damselflies have had their day there is still the odd one about like this nicely coloured male Wandering Ringtail, Austrolestes leda.