Reference The Fauna of King Island Page 37, King Island Natural Resource Management Group Inc.
Insect 4mm
Sitting on Fig leaf
Fig tree had wax scale
This is a very flat insect with no apparent haltere but only two wings. Covered in wooly substance.
I’m fairly sure was on Nerium oleander
Seen on tree by Denison Road. Observation is for whatever lived in the white tubes. Would they be like the small black insect near the caterpillar's head, or is that here for other reasons?
I assume the caterpillar was something similar to this one when it was alive. However, what lived in the white tubes? Are they something that parasitised the caterpillar, or opportunistically made use of it after it died?
Millimetre ruler shown in the third and fourth photographs.
Seen in the Tom Gibson Reserve.
Tiger snake Notechis scutatus, Maria Island, Tasmania, January 2023
On a Wahlenbergia spp (probably W. gymnoclada) @zosterops99
Looks most like genus Exoneura on Field Guide to Insects Tas, was abundant on the Aotus ericoides