sunday stroll

[cajun]

It was a pretty lousy start to the day weatherwise, so instead of the RNP, we stayed local and walked to a place that we'd heard of but not seen.

This stretch of the Woronora river called "Engadine Lagoon" is just on 5ks walk from home. A beautiful place, with quite a few small bass swimming around the edges, all within half a click of Heathcote Road.

Wandering along the firetrail on the way we came across about 100 of these colourful beetles. Anyone got an ID?

Cheers
Ken

[ofuros]

Wandering along the firetrail on the way we came across about 100 of these colourful beetles. Anyone got an ID?

Bulldog with a mask beetle...
Sorry couldn't help myself, very unusual though.

[GPSGuided]

Do they actually move? Or are they cheap plastic decorations from Paddys Market?

[cajun]

Haha
Definitely real. The ranged in size of a small lady beetle to a one cent piece.
Unfortunately I stepped on a couple and they had yellow guts.
Beautiful creatures and as i said maybe 100 of them in 2 sq metres.

[MickyB]

It could be an Australian Stink Bug Nymph or Jewel Bug

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/tag/wtb-dow ... /page/101/

[cajun]

Thanks for that MickeyB. The photo supplied on that site is the same bug, and from the same general area, but ID isn't equivocal. However Google images pretty much confirm it as a jewel bug.
Many thanks!

Ken

[MickyB]

No worries cajun. I thought the same thing about the ID which is why I said "it could be...". Very hard to get info from other sites as well. Very interesting creatures though. Thanks for sharing.