![\"\"](\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix3\/goodenia.jpg\")
<\/p>\n…..grow banks of Goodenia ovata, and when the flowers are producing nectar they are a magnet for many types of insect and their predators. Bees, both native and feral, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and others, etc. etc. etc.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Some pictures from a recent excursion, firstly native bees, Exoneura and Lasioglossum species.<\/p>\n
Exoneura sp.<\/p>\n
Lasioglossum sp.<\/p>\n Butterflies were in numbers, Painted Ladies in the main, but there were also some that were much more interesting, eg. Doubleday’s or Lilac Grass-skipper, Toxidia doubledayi, family Hesperidae. The wing markings show that these are male butterflies.<\/p>\n Two blue species, family Lycaenidae, were nectaring, the Fringed Heath-blue, Neolucia agricola agricola, and the Common Grass-blue, Zizina labradus labradus. The larval food plants of the former are Daviesia species and D. leptophylla is common along the track.<\/p>\n Fringed Heath-blue.<\/p>\n Common Grass-blue.<\/p>\n Moths in the Noctuid family eg. Helicoverpa sp.were nectaring, although elusive, this small Oecophorid, Ocystola paulinella was cooperative, although pretending it wasn’t there.<\/p>\n A brightly coloured flying creature was followed until it landed, a leaf eating beetle.<\/p>\n And the predators, a robber fly with native bee prey,<\/p>\n And a wasp that had just dropped its wingless female.<\/p>\n Click images to enlarge the wonderful world of invertebrates.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …..grow banks of Goodenia ovata, and when the flowers are producing nectar they are a magnet for many types of insect and their predators. Bees, both native and feral, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and others, etc. etc. etc. Some pictures from a recent excursion, firstly native bees, Exoneura and Lasioglossum species. Exoneura sp. Lasioglossum sp. Butterflies … Continue reading Along The Ridge Track….<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix3\/angustk004.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n