Species Guide — Bug Life

Bug
Life

The bugs and insects that can be found around Tasmania

Bug Life

126 species documented

Filter All Ants Grasshoppers Beetles Butterflies & Moths Spiders Myriapods Scorpians Flies Bees & Wasps Bugs Dragonflies & Damselflies Snails Caddisflies

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Parapalaeosepsis plebeia

Black ants with their pupa on a piece of split wood

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Arboreal ant Sp.

Colobopsis gasseri

A Native Australian wasp with a black and white body on a flower stem

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Armyworm Parasitoid Wasp

Ichneumon promissorius

A green reddish and blue coloured damselfly on a grass stem

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Aurora Bluetail

Ischnura aurora

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Australian Amber Snail

Succinea australis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Australian Bag Moth

Cebysa leucotelus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Australian Magpie Moth

Nyctemera amicus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Australian Sheep Blowfly

Lucilia cuprina

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Villa fuscicostata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Banded Leafroller Moth

Subfurcatana subfurcatana

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Actaecia thomsoni

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Comptosia ocellata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Black Spot Moth

Epicoma melanospila

Macro image of a small spider on a leaf

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Black-Thighed Jumping Spider

Opisthoncus nigrofemoratus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Blood-spotted Noctuid

Proteuxoa sanguinipuncta

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Candalides acasta

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A sea-slug on a rock underwater

Macleay’s sea-slug (Baeolidia macleayi)

Macleay’s sea-slug (Baeolidia macleayi)<br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/baeolidia-macleayi

Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

Hermit crab in a shell underwater

A small hermit crab species this guy is under 10mm in size

A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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