Insects and Spiders


The Hancock Street Park ecosystem hosts a variety of butterflies, moths, dragonflies,
beetles and spiders. (https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/home)

Comocrus behri - Mistletoe Day Moth

Delias nigrina - Black Jezebel

Orthetrum caledonicum - Blue Skimmer

Orthetrum caledonicum - Blue Skimmer

Pieris rapae - Cabbage White


Belenois aurota - Caper White

 Spoladea recurvalis - Beet Webworm

Dicranosterna immaculata - Acacia Leaf Beetle 

Hypocysta pseudirius - Dingy Ringlet

Orthetrum villosovittatum - Fiery Skimmer

Hemicordulia tau - Tau Emerald

Ocybadistes walkeri - Green Grass Dart

Psychonotis caelius - Small Green Banded Blue

Eurema hecabe - Large Grass Yellow



Enytpus unifasciatus - Yellow Antenna Black Spider Wasp

Hover Fly


Vanessa kershawi - Australian Painted Lady


                Chauliognathus lugubris  - Plague Soldier Beetle   



Formicidae, Crematogaster sp (ants) attending Cottony cushion scale, Fam. Margarodidae

Genus Cerdisus

Pristhesancus plagipennis - Assasin Bug

Ellipsidion reticulatum - Wood Cockroach

Lampromicra senator - Green Jewel Bug

Diphucephala - Green Scarab Beetle

Leptipous bayleyi - Wattle Pig Weevil 

Anax papuensis - Australian Emperor Dragonfly 

Nymphes myrmeleonoides - Blues Eyes Lacewing

Phonognatha graeffei - Leaf Curling Spider

Micraspis frenata - Striped Ladybird

Leucauge dromedaria - Humped Silver Orb Spider
Phonognatha graeffei - Leaf Curling Spider

 Argiope keyserlingi - St Andrew's Cross Spider 


Colepia rufiventris - Red Robber Fly with prey




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