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Common Pipi Other behaviours and adaptations An important part of the diet of local Aborigines, Common Pipi remains have been found in Aboriginal midden sites dating back 2,000 years. Predators Sea ...

Feather-legged Assassin Bug The Australian Museum acknowledges that we operate on the lands, waters and skies of many First Nations Peoples. As Australia's first museum, we share the responsibility of ...

Introduction The Red Eye cicada can be very common one year, with thousands of individuals in a few trees, but then completely absent the next year. Habitat The Red Eye lives in urban areas, forests ...

Biting midges Feeding and diet As with mosquitoes and most biting flies, it is only the females that bite as they need blood to produce the next generation. The males feed on nectar. Victims are ...

Velvet ants Other behaviours and adaptations Velvet ants scuttle around on the ground looking for the nests of wasps and bees. Finding a suitable nest, the velvet ant chews her way into it. There she ...

Mud-dauber Wasp Feeding and diet The Mud-dauber Wasp is usually seen feeding on flower nectar but occasionally found flying with a spider held in its jaws, destined to be fed to larvae in a mud nest.

Honey Bee Feeding and diet European Honey Bees can be found foraging on the flowers of many different native and introduced plant species. Other behaviours and adaptations Australia's early European ...

Blue-winged Kookaburra family groups are often larger than those of the Laughing Kookaburra, with up to 12 members.

White-winged Choughs live in social clans of about seven to ten individuals and will defend their nest territory during the breeding season with 'wing-waving' displays to deter unwanted intruders. The ...

The Decorator Crab's carapace is covered with hooks to attach algae, seaweed or anything in the environment that will assist in camouflage. This and other decorator crabs belong to the 'spider crab' ...

Identification One of the best known Bird-dropping Spiders is Celaenia excavata. Other names for this spider are the Death's Head Spider, as its markings can also resemble the shape of a skull, and ...