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Find out about

• Animals of Queensland
  • Insects
    • Collecting insects
      • Beating
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      • Malaise Traps
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      • Tullgren Funnels (Berlese Funnels)
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    • Preserving insects
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    • What insect is that?
      • Insect identifier
        • Key to Orders of Common Larger Adult Insects
    • Insect lifecycles
    • Keeping Live Insects
      • Ants
      • Aquatic Insects
      • Butterfly Caterpillars
      • Field Crickets
      • Giant Burrowing Cockroaches
      • Grasshoppers and Locusts
      • Harlequin Bugs
      • Meal Worms
      • Mosquitos
      • Native Bees
      • Silkworms
      • Stick Insects
    • Dangerous insects
    • Ants (Family Formicidae)
    • Butterflies and moths (Order Lepidoptera)
    • Grasshoppers, crickets & katydids (Order Orthoptera)
    • Dragonflies & damselflies (Order Odonata)
    • Cockroaches (Order Blattodea)
    • Beetles (Order Coleoptera)
    • Flies (Order Diptera)
    • Praying Mantids (Order Mantodea)
    • Earwigs (Order Dermaptera)
    • Sucking Bugs (Order Hemiptera)
    • Wasps and bees (Order Hymenoptera)
    • Lacewings
  • Reptiles
    • Snakes
      • Blind Snakes - Typhlopidae
      • Colubrid Snakes - Colubridae
      • File Snakes - Acrochordidae
      • Pythons - Pythonidae
      • Terrestrial Elapid Snakes and Sea Snakes - Elapidae
      • Common and dangerous species
        • Bandy Bandy
        • Brown Tree Snake
        • Carpet Snake or Carpet Python
        • Coastal Taipan
        • Collett's Black Snake
        • Common Death Adder
        • Eastern Brown Snake
        • Freshwater Snake (Keelback Snake)
        • Green Tree Snake
        • Mulga Snake
        • Pale-headed Snake
        • Papuan Black Snake
        • Papuan Whip Snake
        • Red-bellied Black Snake
        • Rough-scaled Snake
        • Small-eyed Snake
        • Speckled Brown Snake
        • Spotted Black Snake
        • Stephens' Banded Snake
        • Tiger Snake
        • Western Brown Snake
        • Western Taipan
        • White-crowned Snake
        • Yellow-faced Whip Snake
      • Survivors of Taipan bites
    • Crocodiles
      • Freshwater crocodile
      • Saltwater crocodile
    • Sea turtles
      • Flatback turtle
      • Green turtle
      • Hawksbill turtle
      • Leatherback turtle
      • Loggerhead turtle
      • Olive Ridley turtle
    • Freshwater turtles
    • Geckos
      • Gecko survey
      • Asian House Gecko
      • Ring-tailed Geckos
        • Cooktown Ring-tailed Gecko
        • Iron Range Ring-tailed Gecko
        • McIlwraith Ring-tailed Gecko
        • Pascoe River Ring-tailed Gecko
        • Southern Ring-tailed Gecko
      • Dtella
      • Leaf-tailed Geckos
        • McIlwraith Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Mount Elliot Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Bulburin Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Koumala Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Gulbaru Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Mount Blackwood Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Oakview Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Eungella Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Mackay Coast Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Sydney Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Northern Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Mount Marsh Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • New England Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Central Queensland Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Border Ranges Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Granite Leaf-tailed Gecko
        • Links
      • Robust Velvet Gecko
      • Spotted Velvet Gecko
      • Stone Gecko
      • Thick-tailed Gecko
    • Legless lizards
    • Skinks
    • Dragons
    • Goannas
    • Reptile invaders
  • Spiders
    • What are spiders?
    • Identifying spiders
    • Primitive Spiders (Mygalomorphae)
      • Trapdoor spiders
        • Golden Trapdoors
        • Brisbane Trapdoor Spider
        • Brown tube spiders
      • Saddle-legged Trapdoor Spiders
      • Tree trapdoor spiders
      • Funnel-web spiders
      • Wishbone Spiders
        • Black Wishbone Spiders
        • Mottled Eastern Wishbone Spiders
        • Bearded Wishbone Spiders
      • Curtain Web Spiders
      • Mouse Spiders
      • Brush-Footed Trapdoor Spiders
        • Brisbane Brush-footed trapdoor
        • Silverbacks
      • Tarantula or Whistling Spiders
    • Modern Spiders (Araneomorphae)
      • Orb-weaving spiders
        • Golden Orb Spiders
        • Garden Orb Web Spiders
        • Silver Orb spider
        • Tent spiders
        • St Andrew's Cross spider
        • Chinaman's Hat spider
      • Net-casting spiders
      • Daddy-long-legs spiders
        • Giant Daddy-long-legs
        • Daddy-long-legs
      • Water, Fishing or Nursery Spiders
        • Fishing or Water Spider
        • Giant Water Spider
        • Tree Water Spider
      • Redback & Brown Widow spiders
        • Redback Spider
        • Brown Widow Spider
      • Other Comb-footed spiders
        • Red House spider
        • Silver teardrop spider
      • Wolf Spiders
      • Crab Spiders
      • Jumping Spiders
        • Striped jumping spider
      • Lynx spiders
      • Huntsman Spiders
        • Brown Huntsman Spider
        • Grey Huntsman
        • Henderson's False Huntsman Spider
      • Ant Spiders
      • Racing Stripe Spiders
      • Swift Spiders
      • Sac spiders
      • White-tailed spiders
      • Bizarre spiders
  • Other Arachnids and myriapoda
    • Centipedes
    • Mites & ticks
    • Scorpions
  • Frogs
    • Disappearing frogs
    • Frog friendly gardens
    • Common frogs
      • Common Green Treefrog
      • Eastern Sedgefrog
      • Graceful Treefrog
      • Naked Treefrog
      • Scarlet-sided Pobblebonk
      • Southern Orange-eyed Treefrog
      • Striped Marshfrog
      • Striped Rocket Frog
      • Tusked Frog
    • Cane Toad
  • Sea life
    • Queensland marine habitats
      • Beach flotsam & jetsam
        • Porcupinefish Swim-bladder
      • The pelagic - the surface of the sea
      • Intertidal mud flats
      • Intertidal rocky shores
        • Pale-lined Tropical Rock Crab
      • Rock pools
      • Coral reefs
        • Dotted Anemone Crab
        • Forceps Butterflyfish
    • Characteristics & adaptations
      • Camouflage
        • Campbell's Spider Crab
        • Harlequin Crab
        • Spotted Tongue Sole
        • Red Scorpionfish
        • Mandarinfish
        • Cuttlefish Chameleons, Papuan Cuttlefish
      • Skeletons & protection in the water
        • Longhorn Cowfish
      • Reduced gravity & size
        • Whale Shark
        • Manta Ray
        • Ocean Sunfish
      • Bizarre growth forms & treasures
        • Pea Crab
        • Purple Flying Gurnard
      • Filter feeding
        • Granulated Barnacle
      • Competition & commensalism
        • Alpheid shrimp & goby
        • Anemone Crab & Sea Anemone
        • Sand Crab & Parasitic Barnacle
        • Honeycomb coral crab in branching corals
        • Colonial sea squirt & blue-green algae
    • Toxic & dangerous marine animals
    • Threatened marine life
      • Grey Nurse Shark
      • Seahorses
    • Sponges
      • Unique features of sponges
        • Choanocytes
        • Water canal (aquiferous) system
        • Organic & inorganic skeletons
        • Totipotency
        • Plasticity
      • Dispersal & reproduction
      • Toxic sponges & pharmaceutical properties
      • Identifying sponges
      • Online resources
      • Collecting & preserving sponges
      • Queensland sponges
      • The "Bob Marley Sponge"
      • Schulze's Tennis Ball Sponge
      • Red Burrowing Sponge
    • Corals and relatives (Cnidaria)
      • Hard corals (Hexacorals)
        • Waratah Anemone or Cherry Anemone
        • Noble Staghorn Coral
        • Orange Tube Coral
        • Massive Coral
        • Mushroom Coral
        • Bulb-Tentacle Anemone
        • Crowds of Corals
      • Soft corals (Octocorals)
        • Blue Soft Coral
        • Prickly Red Tree Coral
        • Red Gorgonian Sea Fan
        • Short-quill Sea Pen
      • Hydrozoans
        • By-the-wind Sailor
        • White-stinging Sea Fern or Stinging Hydroid
        • Bluebottle or Portuguese Man-O-War
      • Scyphozoans
        • Blue Blubber
      • Cubozoans
        • Northern Australian Box Jellyfish
    • Worms
      • Flatworms (Platyhelminthes)
        • Broad-striped Flatworm
        • The Pleasing Flatworm
        • Leopard Flatworm
        • Hancock's Flatworm
      • Ribbon Worms (Nemertea)
        • Dark-striped Ribbon Worm
      • Segmented Worms (Annelida)
        • Feather Duster Worm
        • Bristle Worm
      • Peanut Worms (Sipuncula)
        • Mangrove Peanut Worm
    • Echinoderms
      • Lesueur's Sanddollar
      • Tuberculate Sea Urchin
      • Robust Featherstar
      • Bennett's Feather Star
      • Flamboyant Sea Cucumber
      • Vermillion Seastar
      • Flemfish or Sea Cucumbers
      • Noble Featherstar
      • Flower Urchin
    • Ascidians
      • Cunjevoi
      • Sea Daisy
      • Choir Boy Sea Squirt
      • Honeycomb Sea Squirt
      • Mottled Sea Squirt
      • Banksia Sea Squirt
  • Fishes
    • Study of fishes
    • Standard, common & scientific names of fishes
    • Sharks & rays
      • Bull Shark
    • Bony fishes
    • Venomous fishes
      • Stingrays
      • Stonefish
      • Bullrout
      • Scorpionfishes
      • Eeltail Catfishes
      • Rabbitfishes & scats
        • Black Rabbitfish
        • Striped Scat
    • Fish poisoning
      • Ciguatoxic fishes
      • Tetrodotoxic fishes
    • The unique Australian Lungfish
    • Freshwater fishes
  • Crustaceans
    • Common freshwater & terrestrial crustaceans
      • Shield Shrimp
      • Forest Hopper or "Carpet Prawn"
      • Garden Slater
      • Redclaw
      • Inland Yabby
      • Orange-fingered Yabby
      • Lamington Spiny Crayfish
      • Inland Freshwater Crab
    • Common marine crustaceans
      • Barnacles
        • Goose Barnacle
        • Imperial Barnacle
        • Rose Barnacle
        • Royal Barnacle
        • Sand Crab Sacculina
      • Mantis Shrimps
        • Orange-spot Smashing Mantis Shrimp
        • Peacock Mantis Shrimp
      • Prawns & Shrimps
        • Banana Prawn
        • Bruces Hinge-beak Prawn
        • Bold-spotted Anemone Shrimp
        • Brown Tiger Prawn
        • Eastern King Prawn
        • Pacific Clown Anemone Shrimp
      • Cleaning Shrimps & allies
        • Banded Coral Shrimp
      • Lobsters & Spiny Crayfish
        • Moreton Bay Bug
        • Ornate Spiny Lobster
        • Smooth Fan Lobster
      • Mud & Coral 'Lobsters'
        • Yabby
        • Red Mud Lobster
      • Hermit Crabs, Squat Lobsters & allies
        • Elegant Squat Lobster
        • Lamarcks Porcelain Crab
        • Mauve-eyed Hermit
        • Pink-clawed Hermit
        • Yellow-striped Hermit
      • Crabs
        • Red and White-spotted Reef Crab
        • Blue Coral Crab
        • Cleft-fronted Bait Crab
        • Common Box Crab
        • Coral Swimmer Crab
        • Furry-clawed Crab
        • Giant Sentinel Crab
        • Hairy Swimmer Crab
        • Honeycomb Coral Crab
        • Horn-eyed Ghost Crab
        • Mud Crab
        • Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab
        • Purple Swift-footed Shore Crab
        • River Swimming Crab
        • Sand Bubbler
        • Sand Crab
        • Semaphore Crab
        • Shawl Crab
        • Shiny Bait Crab
        • Smooth-handed Ghost Crab
        • Spanner Crab
        • Speckled Sand Crab
        • Stalk-eyed Swimmer Crab
        • Three-spotted Swimmer Crab
        • Two-toned Fiddler Crab
        • Soldier Crab
    • Rare or threatened crustaceans
      • Sand Yabby
      • Swamp Crayfish
      • Freshwater Tiger Crab
  • Mammals
    • Common mammals of south-east Queensland
      • Introduced Mammals
        • Brown Hare
        • Cat
        • Dingo
        • Pig
        • Rabbit
        • Red Deer
        • Red Fox
      • Marsupials
        • Agile Wallaby
        • Black-striped Wallaby
        • Brush-tailed Phascogale
        • Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby
        • Common Brushtail Possum
        • Common Dunnart
        • Common Planigale
        • Common Ringtail Possum
        • Feathertail Glider
        • Greater Glider
        • Grey Kangaroo
        • Koala
        • Long-nosed Bandicoot
        • Long-nosed Potoroo
        • Northern Brown Bandicoot
        • Red-legged Pademelon
        • Red-necked Pademelon
        • Red-necked Wallaby
        • Rufous Bettong
        • Short-eared Mountain Possum
        • Spotted-tailed Quoll
        • Squirrel Glider
        • Subtropical Antechinus
        • Sugar Glider
        • Swamp Wallaby
        • Whiptail Wallaby
        • Yellow-bellied Glider
        • Yellow-footed Antechinus
      • Monotremes
        • Echidna
        • Platypus
      • Rats and Mice
        • Bush Rat
        • Fawn-footed Melomys
        • Grassland Melomys
        • House Mouse
        • Pale Field Rat
        • Sewer Rat
        • Ship Rat
        • Swamp Rat
        • Water Mouse
        • Water Rat
    • Threatened species: Queensland's vanishing wildlife
      • Water Mouse
      • Bridled Nailtail Wallaby
      • Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat
      • Mahogany Glider
      • Northern Bettong
      • Southern Spotted-tailed Quoll
      • Greater Bilby
      • Julia Creek Dunnart
      • Dugong (Sea Cow)
      • Humpback Whale
      • Blue Whale
  • Molluscs
    • Gastropods
      • Marine snails
        • Amethyst Olive
        • Banded Helmet
        • Cart-rut Whelk
        • Fox Dove Snail
        • Jukes' Keyhole Limpet
        • Leaden Sand Snail
        • Lined Nerite
        • Military Turban
        • Mud Whelks
        • Red-mouthed Banded Whelk
        • Red-mouthed Stromb
        • Rose Petal Bubble Snail
        • Variable Mitre
        • Zebra Volute
        • Pyramid Periwinkle
        • Girdled Periwinkle
        • Gold-ring Cowrie
        • Lord Valentia's Cowrie
        • Golden Cowrie
        • Toenail Egg Cowrie
        • Giant Triton
        • Kookaburra Whelk
        • Syrinx - the world's largest snail
        • Geography Cone
        • Textile Cone
        • Glory of the Seas Cone
        • Common Violet Snail
      • Land snails & slugs
        • Asian Tramp Snail
        • European Garden Snail
        • Fine-speckled Semi-slug
        • Frasers Banded Snail
        • Glossy Turban Carnivorous Snail
        • Orchid Snail
        • Pale Banded Snail
        • Steve Irwin's Treesnail
        • Richmond River Keeled Snail
        • Giant Panda Snail
        • Apple Snail
        • Red-triangle Slug
      • Nudibranchs
        • Bullock's Nudibranch
        • Funeral Pyre Nudibranch
        • Gold-spotted Nudibranch
        • Japanese Hooded Nudibranch
        • Purple-edged Nudibranch
        • Red-lined Aeolid
        • Kuiter's Nudibranch
        • Pustulose Phyllidiid
        • Margined Sea Lizard
    • Cephalopods
      • Diamondback Squid
      • Cuttle-bone
      • Giant Squid
      • Tail-light Squid Shell
      • Blue-lined Octopus
    • Bivalves
      • Cream Wafer Tellin
      • Eugarie
      • Gaping Venus Clam
      • Hairy Mussel
      • Mud Ark
      • Penguin Wing Oyster
      • Scaly Scallop
      • Sydney Rock Oyster
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      • Strawberry Cockle
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