Update for the bug above, Dave - have searched the Brisbane Insects site, and the Black Hill beetle looks like Choerocoris paganus but lacks the red stripe behind the head. Just regional variation of that species?

Thanks very much for helping with the grasshopper Dave. Rest assured I've tried to look at all sorts of places on the internet for IDs - with some success too. I don't many photos to ID either, so don't worry - I appreciate you've all quite rightly got far more important things to do with your time! When you said submit things to the relevant web[age, which did you mean? Look forward to hearing from you, and thank you very much again for your help. I've attached an Adelaide Hills beetle which I have not been able to make progress with, even at genus level.

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Hi Dave Just discovered this site today. I lived in the Adelaide Hills a couple of years ago, but am now back in the UK. I'm putting all sorts of photos on my website (www.andydownunder.com) but am having trouble identifying some of the insects I saw. Any help you can give would be great. many thanks. I have attached one of the grasshoppers here.

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Thanks Dave and thankyou to Graham. It will be interesting to see the adult specimen!

another photo

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Hi Dave, Im currently doing my honours year with the Behavioural Ecology Research Group at Macquarie University, studying genital chirality in Ciulfina. Since i started, ive had quite a few friends ask for help with identification of mantids they have encountered. Unfortunately i am not familiar with the specimen shown here. Originally i thought it was an Archimantis latistyla but the lobes on the legs, the shape of the head and the pattern on the eyes would indicate otherwise. Could you help me out here? Thanks so much!

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Thanks for your help Dave. The kids and I have been enjoying learning from you.

Hi Dave, Thank you. for your reply. I also have a question about an owlfly- do their eyes normally look like this?

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Hi, I was wondering if you could tell me what type of insect this is that seems to be eating an ant?

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This looks like the place to ask about identifying strange insects! I hope I can get some help with this caterpillar. We saw it in cool temperate rainforest in New England National Park climbing a mossy Antarctic Beech tree. It was quite spectacular with long white hairs, yellow head and bottom, and four more solid, feather-like extensions on its back amongst the white hairs. It was about 5-6 cm long. Would love to know what it is and what it will become! Thanks for any help.

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I had trouble loading the photo, with my first comment, bettle on photo book you can look at, have set security for Museum to see.

Hi, I have found a beetle in my garden and think it may be a jewel bug but can't find it in any of our books or on the net. thought someone here might be able to help me identify it. I found it in our vegie patch near the corn and I shifted it onto a Camellia to take a better photo. The top looks like a jewel bettle and the underneath shows a bright polka dot red and white/yellow lower section, like colourful boxer shorts. Do you think you may know what this is?

thanks a lot Dave, really appreciate it, finally know what it is! Was hoping it was a new species, but unfortunately no, but thanks anyway, guess I'll have to keep looking :D Keep up the great work :D

thanks for such a quick reply, Dave. Are they common? I live in Ku-ring-gai but as I said, haven't seen them before. I did notice a sting appear as I was trying to take the photo :-)

I have never seen this wasp/fly before, it was in my house today. About the size and shape of a german wasp, but a little slimmer, it was matt black with regular white? spots on its body and legs. Sorry the image is so fuzzy, it was in a perspex chamber being expelled!

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and here's another photo, with it's wing up on the left,, not clearly visible though, sorry for the tilt of the photo as well. Thanks :D

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Hi, these insects have sometimes been lurking on a kumquat tree in the garden, I haven't been able to identify them, on the internet or in books, and was wondering if you could help me. Thanks a lot, love this museum, and insects :D

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Hi Dave, trying again. Chris

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Hi, I observed this moth like insect feeding on the flowering Plumbago in Warrawee Sydney. I have never seen this type of moth before. Can you please identify this species. Regards Steve

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Hi Dave, wondering if you could chance an identification of this fly (and perhaps even the mite), found nectaring on Baeckea virgata flowers at home, size is tiny about the size of Drosera sp. maybe 3-4mm long. I measured one of the petals from those flowers at 2mm across. This was at home, south of the Royal NP Sydney.

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Hi, I'm really fascinated with termites and have been collecting them and preserving them using ethanol. Is there any place or good reference book or reference collection that I could go to so that I can identify the termite species that I am collecting?

Hi, I'm collecting and preserving insects as a hobby. I'm using "Methods for collecting, preserving and studying insects" as a practical guide but was wondering what is the best solution to preserve the insects I've stored in a freezer? Cheers

Oh, and I forgot to mention that they always appear in the morning and they're always dead... I'm yet to see one alive despite getting up at odd hours :)

Hello, Just wondering if anyone can help me? Every couple of weeks I find a little cluster of these insects on my living room floor and I have no idea what they are or where they are coming from. If anyone could identify it and tell me a little about it I would be grateful :) Cheers, Gill

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How do i check out your collection of images of jewel beetles and Christmas beetles online?

Hello I live in Timor-Leste, and on the weekend in the mountains, was surprised by this large insect. Does anyone know what it is called? (it appeared at night and presumably flew towards the light)

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last one :)

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heres another pic

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Hi, Can anyone please tell me what these are??? They have been at our place for years and finally I got a semi decent photo of them to allow me to ask for your help. Thanks, kate : )

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thanks dave,im pretty sure what i saw resembled lacewing on wire picture.though its antennae was was the same legnth as its body and i olny saw it in flight. this is a great sight for people who are curious but dont know too much. id never even heard of a lacewing just assumed it was some sort of dragonfly.very beautiful insect could be out of a magical childrens book!! the owlfly....love it!!!! anyway i hope i get to see one again. thanks so much dave.i know where to come if i have any other questions.ive asked two questions and both have been replyed to with speed.awsome!!! tamar

saw a dragonfly last night it had thin long antennae with little round ends,ive never seen one before,my sister hadnt either. it was hovering near the light out front but by the time id gotten the camera it had gone.does anyone know what sort this is?.i dont know much about insects but i know when i see something different from the usual.thanks guys.

Hello, Is this the place to ask for confirmation that this is Myrmecia piliventris

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