“when she #JudyAllen took a photo of an #Antlion bug in the nearby town of Red Cliffs, she did not think too much of it. But after she uploaded the image online, an expert informed her she had taken a rare wild photo of a #MyrmeleonHoustoni, an #insect that has never been officially #photographed in the wild.

#CSIRO / #biodiversity / #science / #insects <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-17/bug-species-inaturalist-walking-bush-insect-discovery-photo/106679772>

Bushwalker takes photo of rare bug in the wild

There were no known photographs taken in the wild of the Myrmeleon houstoni until a regional Victorian woman snapped a photo of one while on a bushwalk.