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May 4, 2024
01:46 PM AEST
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April 10, 2024
02:19 PM ACST
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April 20, 2024
07:49 AM UTC
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April 16, 2024
07:56 PM AEST
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March 30, 2024
06:27 AM UTC
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March 29, 2024
09:42 AM ACDT
Description
~10mm long Female (10 flagella). Unsure of id, happy to be corrected.
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March 21, 2024
06:26 PM EDT
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February 29, 2024
12:20 AM AEDT
Description
12-13 mm long.
Several individuals seen burrowing into a decaying log.
Images are of 3 individuals (1 =images 1-15; 2 = 16-18; 3 = 19-29).
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March 17, 2024
10:04 PM AEDT
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March 16, 2024
09:40 PM AEDT
Description
I think Cerceris - but I think it is not one of the regularly observed species. I will try to get some better photos.
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March 13, 2024
06:11 AM UTC
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March 12, 2024
05:30 PM AEST
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March 10, 2024
08:56 PM AEST
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March 3, 2024
05:03 PM AEST
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March 2, 2024
05:52 PM AWST
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March 1, 2024
12:46 PM AEDT
Description
Approx 1cm long . Caught and released
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March 1, 2024
01:53 PM ACDT
Description
Possibly multiple different individuals. Very dark black all over (with what appeared to be slighty paler dark grey pronotum), difficult to bring out details in photos.
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March 1, 2024
01:27 PM ACDT
Description
Unfortunately the only photo from a very short observation. Certainly not confident in this ID but don't have any other ideas.
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February 28, 2024
12:30 AM AEDT
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February 28, 2024
10:42 AM AEST
Description
Captured in garden. was digging holes in garden pots.
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February 24, 2024
05:37 AM AEST
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February 18, 2024
03:27 PM AEDT
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February 13, 2024
07:21 PM AEDT
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February 1, 2024
01:54 AM UTC
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January 19, 2024
02:57 PM AEDT
Description
Approx 13mm long . Caught and released
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January 20, 2024
09:47 AM UTC
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January 21, 2024
12:51 PM AEDT
Description
Approx 1cm long .Caught and released
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January 21, 2024
09:13 PM AEDT
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January 22, 2024
03:16 PM AEDT
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November 14, 2021
11:40 PM AEDT
Description
This wasp tried to deposit (perhaps successfully) egg/s into this case moth lava for at least 26 minutes that I observed - time from first photo to last. Nearly all the probing (at least a couple of hundred attempts) was around the entrance area with no obvious success.
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January 21, 2024
05:57 PM ACDT
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December 13, 2023
09:20 PM UTC
Description
Same wasp species as observation 193565084 taken in same place on a different day.
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December 11, 2023
01:39 PM AWST
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December 10, 2023
04:14 PM AEDT
Description
Female.
Bodylength about 8-9 mm.
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December 3, 2023
03:09 PM AEDT
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December 2, 2023
10:47 AM AEDT
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August 11, 2020
08:49 PM AEST
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November 18, 2023
09:17 PM AEDT
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February 6, 2023
08:37 AM UTC
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August 29, 2022
08:06 AM AWST
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November 13, 2023
10:18 AM UTC
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November 7, 2023
02:39 PM UTC
Description
Spotted deceased in a spider web
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February 2, 2023
04:57 PM AEDT
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October 29, 2023
02:45 PM AEDT
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October 26, 2023
12:57 PM UTC
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October 20, 2023
07:20 AM AEST
Description
Found on a plant in the garden Rainforest Patch.
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February 13, 2022
01:54 PM AEDT
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September 19, 2023
02:54 PM AEST
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August 11, 2023
05:54 PM AEST
Description
Rescued from a dog's bowl of water, so was busy drying itself off.
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May 10, 2023
08:37 PM AEST
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July 10, 2023
10:31 AM ACST
Description
Adult Male, ~18mm long.
Note antennae shape & spurs, keel, 11 flagellomeres.
Different front leg shape to female, as well as posterior of course.
Lack of yellow tip isn't gender based; nor diagnostic.
Note the bent hairs on the leading edge of the forewing. This occurs in both genders.
https://www.ellura.info/Diptera-Hymenoptera.html#Bembix-vespiformis
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January 25, 2021
11:00 PM AEDT
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February 13, 2021
09:40 PM AEDT
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December 7, 2022
02:19 PM ACDT
Description
Feeding on Lechenaultia divaricata
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January 1, 2023
12:02 PM ACDT
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June 1, 2019
04:21 PM AWST
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May 19, 2021
06:10 PM AWST
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May 25, 2023
08:01 PM AEST
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June 23, 2022
08:34 AM ACST
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June 23, 2022
09:33 AM ACST
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March 4, 2021
07:41 AM ACDT
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February 16, 2020
05:39 PM ACDT
Description
at flowers of Melaleuca lanceolata
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April 3, 2021
09:13 AM AEST
Description
On the bank of Ross River. Small, on grass seed head.
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November 26, 2021
06:42 PM AEDT
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October 29, 2021
10:43 AM AEST
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January 11, 2021
03:58 PM AEST
Description
About 10 mm long, on vegetation
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January 14, 2020
09:05 AM AEST
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December 29, 2021
08:54 PM AEST
Description
Large wasp, at least 3cm long, sitting on acacia leaves during a shower of rain. Half a dozen of them at this location but only photographed this one.
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May 7, 2019
05:45 AM EDT
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March 11, 2017
08:00 PM HST
Description
seen looking through the crevices of the bark.
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May 7, 2023
10:35 AM AEST
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December 7, 2022
02:19 PM ACDT
Description
Feeding on Lechenaultia divaricata
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May 25, 2019
10:21 PM AEST
Description
unknown Orange & Black Wasp
Identified as Cerceris on Bowerbird by Ken Walker
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May 25, 2019
10:26 PM AEST
Description
unknown Orange & Black Wasp
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December 25, 2022
08:24 PM AEDT
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April 15, 2023
12:53 PM AEST
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May 20, 2019
05:23 PM AEST
Description
Identified as Cerceris on Bowerbird by Ken Walker
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December 24, 2020
09:03 PM UTC
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May 26, 2019
02:44 AM AEST
Description
Yellow Jawed Bee
Identified as Cerceris on Bowerbird by Bernhard Jacobi
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May 1, 2023
11:13 AM AEST
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May 1, 2023
11:13 AM AEST
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May 1, 2023
11:13 AM AEST
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February 22, 2020
10:14 PM AEDT
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March 9, 2020
12:10 PM UTC
Description
In the mixed native, non-native garden with veggie patch on a rural block adjacent to Blakely's Red Gum and Red Box woodland. On mint flower.
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March 16, 2020
08:36 AM AEDT
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March 9, 2023
08:50 PM AEDT
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April 11, 2023
10:08 AM UTC
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August 28, 2020
10:47 AM AEST
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March 29, 2022
08:49 PM AEDT
Description
I think this is a Cerceris sp. probably Cerceris australis. See also an earlier post of a wasp of similar appearance.
In the earlier post, I added the following comment:
Ken Walker advises that "Cerceris was revised in 1981 by Howard Evans and he recognised 47 species - the two most common were C. antipodes and C. australis."
Ken suspected this might prove to be C. australis.
Based on photos on ALA and elsewhere, I also think that this is probably C. australis.
The photos of this and the one in earlier observation were all taken on the same day and location on the same plant, a silk pod vine.
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April 5, 2023
12:51 PM BST
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April 15, 2023
12:58 PM AEST
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April 12, 2022
07:21 PM AEST
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March 14, 2021
03:54 PM AEDT
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January 26, 2023
01:33 PM AEDT
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December 23, 2022
09:10 AM AEDT
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December 9, 2020
09:35 PM AEDT
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January 30, 2021
09:05 AM AEDT
Description
found in montane swamp (Packers Swamp) at elevation 850 Metres
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April 9, 2023
10:57 AM UTC
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January 1, 2021
06:55 PM AEDT
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February 4, 2023
01:59 PM AEDT
Description
Seen with prey of blowfly or drone fly in first photo.