Female Celaenia excavata, the common bird-dropping #spider, sitting upside-down on her collection of egg sacs. These spiders predate on male moths by mimicking the pheromones they use to attract mates.

Adelaide, South Australia. #WildOz

Fairies sitting on their tiny thrones in the Great Sandy National Park, QLD. Either Australotettix sp. or a new genus. 🦗🧚 #entomology #orthoptera

📸: Greg Tasney

Final draft of my first #taxonomy paper done! Getting excited now. Here's one of the new species - a cave cricket (Rhaphidophoridae) known only from abandoned gold mines in Victoria's Wombat State Forest. 🦗 #entomology

Pic of the species in life by Paul George.