2019/01/27

Reptiles and insects

I'm still on holiday and just happen to catch a few bugs and reptiles that weren't hiding from the heat; not as well as others anyways...
An Eastern Blue-Tongued Skink. With a body lenght of up to 50cm one of the largest skinks there is.

Another Skink, although this one belongs to a different family.

Waterfall at Plain Creek, Victoria.

A Highland or Ramsay's Copperhead, from the Austrelaps family. This one was caught in our bird netting.

Like all other Elapides Copperheads are highly venomous and a bite can easily kill a healthy adult. Although very shy, safety precautions are mandatory when handling these animals.

A Praying mantis, Mantodea order


A honeybee on clover


A Damselfly, unsure of the family

A member of the Hymenoptera family; a relative of the wasps and ants.

Cobwebs covering Flax Lily berries

A Crimson Rosella

Definitely one of Australias most pretty parrots

An alpine cricket of the Tinzeda family

A juvenile bird, probably of the Falcon family.

An alpine Grasshopper.

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