• Insects
  • Insects
    • What are insects?
    • Why most animals are insects
    • Metamorphosis: a remarkable change
    • Herbivory: eating plants
    • Predators, parasites and parasitoids
    • Pollination
    • Seed dispersal
    • Decomposition - Corpse Fauna
  • Insects that bite and sting
    • Insect bites and stings
    • Ants: Family Formicidae
    • Bees: Suborder Apocrita
    • Wasps: Suborder Apocrita
    • Beach rove beetles
  • Australian insects
    • Ants: Family Formicidae
    • Bees: Suborder Apocrita
    • Beetles: Order Coleoptera
    • Cicadas: Superfamily Cicadoidea
    • Cockroaches: Order Blattodea
    • Dragonflies and damselflies: Order Odonata
    • Flies and mosquitoes: Order Diptera
    • Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids and locusts: Order Orthoptera
    • Lacewings and Antlions: Order Neuroptera
    • Leaf and Stick Insects: Order Phasmatodea
    • Moths, butterflies and skippers: Order Lepidoptera
    • Praying mantises: Order Mantodea
    • Sawflies, Wasps, Bees and Ants: Order Hymenoptera
    • Wasps: Suborder Apocrita
    • What are the differences between butterflies and moths?
    • What are the differences between bugs and beetles?
    • What are the differences between ants and termites?
    • What are the differences between flies and wasps?
  • Insects in the house and garden
    • Ants as pests
    • Ants: Family Formicidae
    • Termites as pests
    • What are the differences between ants and termites?
    • Flies and mosquitoes: Order Diptera
    • House Fly
    • Cockroaches: Order Blattodea
    • Termites
    • Beetles: Order Coleoptera
    • Case-bearing Clothes Moth
  • Insects in the Australian Museum Collections
    • Australian Museum Entomology Collection
    • Stalk-eyed Signal Flies
    • Rare - or just hidden?
    • Wombat Flies
    • Phantom Phasmids
    • More than Insects
    • Behind the Scenes - Entomology
• About the Museum
• What's on
• Visiting the Australian Museum

Image Gallery: Australian insects

There is a huge and varied range of insects found in Australia. View some of the more colourful or unusual ones here.

Angophora hispida and bee

Adult Bogong Moth, Agrotis infusa

Adult Cabbage White Butterfly

Adult Emperor Gum Moth

Adult female Orchard Butterfly

Adult male Orchard Butterfly

Adult mosquito sitting on leaf

Banksia Jewel Beetle

Bee feeding on nectar

Bee pollinating flower

Blue Triangle Butterfly on leaf

Botany Bay Weevil on leaf

Bronze Orange Bugs

Bull Ant walking across leaf

Christmas Beetle Anoplognathus boisduvali

Christmas Beetle Anoplognathus montanus

Common Brown Butterfly

Common Brown Butterfly on branch

Common Grass Blue Butterfly

Cotton Harlequin Bugs on leaf