Insects in the Museum
Learn more about our gallery and what's behind-the-scenes.
Moths and Butterflies
The scale-winged insects, Order Lepidoptera.
- Moths, butterflies and skippers: Order Lepidoptera
- What are the differences between butterflies and moths?
- Emperor Gum Moth
- White-stemmed Gum Moth
- Scribbly Gum Moth
- Giant Wood Moth
- Privet Hawk Moth
- Wedge Footman Calamidia hirta (Walker, 1854)
- Clouded Footman Anestia ombrophanes Meyrick, 1886
- Marbled Footman Anestia semiochrea (Butler, 1886)
- Speckled Footman Termessa catocalina (Walker, 1865)
- Snowy Footman Termessa nivosa (Walker, 1865)
- Propitious Footman Termessa laeta (Walker, 1856)
- Shepherd's Footman Termessa shepherdi Newman, 1856
- Favoured Footman Termessa gratiosa (Walker, 1865)
- Double Yellow-patched Footman Termessa zonophanes (Meyrick, 1888)
- Broad-banded Footman Termessa xanthomelas (Lower, 1892)
- Hookwing Footman Termessa discrepans (Walker, 1865)
- Doubleday's Footman Castulo doubledayi Newman, 1857
- Yellow-banded Footman Castulo plagiata Walker, 1854
- Case-bearing Clothes Moth
- Australian mallee moths
- Hawk Moths
- Blue Triangle Butterfly
- Orchard Butterfly
- Macleay's Swallowtail
- Wanderer Butterfly
- Common Brown Butterfly
- Meadow Argus Butterfly
- Yellow Admiral
- Australian Painted Lady
- Cabbage White Butterfly
- Caper White Butterfly
- Common Imperial Blue Butterfly
- Common Grass Blue
- Orange Palm Dart
- Bronze Flat Butterfly
- Common Dart Butterfly
- Bogong Moth
- Grapevine Moth
- Common Crow Butterfly
- Cup moths
- Lycaenid butterflies and ants
- Lichen Moths (Arctiidae: Lithosiinae)
- Lichen Moths in the genus Termessa
- Butterfly and moth sketches by the Scott family
Ants, Wasps, Bees and Sawflies
The heavy-winged insects, Order Hymenoptera.
- Ants, Wasps, Bees and Sawflies: Order Hymenoptera
- Ants: Family Formicidae
- Ants as pests
- What are the differences between ants and termites?
- Wasps: Suborder Apocrita
- What are the differences between flies and wasps?
- Bees: Suborder Apocrita
- Meat Ant
- Spider Ant
- Sugar Ant
- Bull ants
- Funnel Ant
- Golden-spined Ant
- Green-head Ant
- Ant-raiding Ant
- Braconid wasps
- Cuckoo wasps
- Paper wasps
- Potter wasps
- Mud-dauber Wasp
- Sand wasps
- Spider wasps
- Flower wasps
- Blue Ant
- European Wasp
- Fig wasps
- Hatchet wasps
- Ichneumonid wasps
- Diapriid wasps
- Velvet ants
- Honey Bee
- Feathery Leioproctus Bee
- Masked bees
- Common Wasp-mimic Bee
- Leafcutter Bee
- Common Blue-banded Bee
- Cuckoo bees
- Peacock Carpenter Bee
- Reed bees
- Nomia bees
- White-banded bees
- Stingless Bee
- Steel-blue sawflies
Grasshoppers, crickets, locusts and earwigs
The straight-winged insects, Order Orthoptera, and the skin-winged insects, Order Dermaptera.
Flies, dragonflies and lacewings
The two-winged insects, Order Diptera; the toothed insects, Order Odonata; and the net-winged insects, Order Neuroptera.
- Flies and mosquitoes: Order Diptera
- Lacewings and Antlions: Order Neuroptera
- Stalk-eyed Signal Flies
- Wombat Flies
- Australian Sheep Blowfly
- Crane flies
- Biting midges
- House Fly
- Hover flies
- March flies
- Vinegar Fly
- Robber flies
- Mosquitoes
- South-eastern Petaltail
- Waterfall Redspot
- Australian Emperor
- Mountain Tigertail dragonfly
- Sydney Hawk Dragonfly
- Pygmy Shutwing
- Fiery Skimmer
Insects in our world
Discover how insects interact with plants and other animals.
Bugs and Cicadas
The true bugs, Order Hemiptera.
- What are the differences between bugs and beetles?
- Cicadas: Superfamily Cicadoidea
- Greengrocer Cicada
- Double Drummer Cicada
- Red Eye Cicada
- Floury Baker Cicada
- Cherrynose Cicada
- Crusader Bug
- Green Vegetable Bug
- Cotton Harlequin Bug
- Feather-legged Assassin Bug
- Termite Assassin Bug
- Giant Water Bug
- Bronze Orange Bug
- Giant female scale insects and bird-of-paradise flies
Beetles
The sheath-winged insects, Order Coleoptera.
- Beetles: Order Coleoptera
- What are the differences between bugs and beetles?
- Blue Mountains Firefly
- Click beetles
- Christmas Beetle
- Bombardier Beetle
- Australian Carpet Beetle
- Darkling Beetle
- Feather-winged beetles
- Bess Beetle
- Plague Soldier Beetle
- Transverse Ladybird
- Three-punctured Diving Beetle
- Flat African Dung Beetle
- Long-nosed Lycid Beetle
- Punctate Flower Chafer Beetle
- Whirligig Beetle
- Botany Bay Weevil
- Pumpkin Beetle
- Orchid Beetle
- Paropsine Beetle
- Jewel Beetle
- Powder Post Borer
- Lesser Grain Borer
- Beach rove beetles
- Carrion Beetle
- Dung Beetles
- Fiddler Beetle
- Pie-dish Beetles
Cockroaches, termites, mantids and stick insects
The nett-winged insects, Order Dictyoptera; and the phantom insects, Order Phasmatodea.
- Cockroaches: Order Blattodea
- Termites
- Termites as pests
- What are the differences between ants and termites?
- Praying mantises: Order Mantodea
- Leaf and Stick Insects: Order Phasmatodea
- Care of Stick Insects
- Phantom Phasmids
- German Cockroach
- Native Cockroaches
- Flat Cockroach
- Purple-winged Mantid
- False Garden Mantid
