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Dune Glider The Dune Glider is a moderately large dragonfly that is largely confined to dune lakes on the coast and sand islands. Adult males are red and have a dark-red patch at the base of each hindwing.
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Brown Tiger Prawn The Brown Tiger Prawn is a large, banded prawn growing to 235 mm in length. It occurs on mud or sandy mud, and is found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to central NSW.
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Sand Yabby The Sand Yabby is semi-aquatic and burrows around the perimeter of sand lakes or along small creeks. It is restricted to coastal south-eastern Queensland as far north as Fraser Island.
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Smooth Fan Lobster The Smooth Fan Lobster is found on soft stony substrates, 90–180 m depth, in Southern Qld, and northern NSW.
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Saltwater Crocodile The Saltwater or Estuarine Crocodile is a broad-snouted species that grows to a large size. It occurs in the islands of the western Pacific, India, south-east Asia, New Guinea and northern Australia. In Queensland, Saltwater Crocodiles may be encountered in the sea or any coastal waterway from Rockhampton north.
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Orchard Swallowtail The Orchard Swallowtail butterfly is widespread in northern and eastern Australia.
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Loggerhead Turtle The Loggerhead Turtle is a large turtle with a broad, triangular head and powerful crushing jaws. It is found in coastal, tropical and subtropical waters around the world.
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Common Crow The Common Crow butterfly is found in open forest and woodland. It is widespread across northern and eastern Australia. In Brisbane gardens, the caterpillars feed mostly on oleanders and figs.
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Hawksbill Turtle The Hawksbill Turtle is a medium-sized turtle with a narrow head and beak-like snout. The shell has four large scales down either side which are thick and overlapping. It is found in tropical seas of northern Australia, the central Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions.
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Evening Brown The Evening Brown butterfly rests on the ground during the day and flies at dusk. The green caterpillars have horned heads and feed on a variety of grasses.
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Green Turtle The Green Turtle is a large turtle with a bullet-shaped head and four large scales down either side of the shell. It is found in coastal, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide.
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Mud Dauber Wasp Mud-dauber wasps build mud nests in sheltered situations such as caves, overhangs or even inside buildings. They are found across mainland Australia.
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Pygmy Wisp The Pygmy Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits ponds, swamps and fringes of dams and lakes with plentiful aquatic vegetation. Mature males are dark brown or black with greenish markings and a reddish tip to the abdomen. Young females are mostly red and become black and green as they age.
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Australian Pygmyfly The Australian Pygmyfly is a very small dragonfly that inhabits swamps, boggy seepages and shallow ponds and dams with plentiful aquatic plants. Mature males have the thorax and base of the abdomen covered in a bluish powdery coating with the tip of the abdomen red.
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Blue Slim The Blue Slim is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits standing waters including ponds, dams and swamps. Males and females are blue and black with a long, slender abdomen.
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Red-rumped Wisp The Red-rumped Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits a variety of standing water habitats, including small, well-vegetated ponds, dams and swamps. It is very similar to the Pgymy Wisp but males have more of the tip of the abdomen reddish. However, only female Red-rumped Wisps are known from south-east Queensland.
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Pygmy Percher The Pygmy Percher is a very small dragonfly that inhabits a range of standing and flowing waters. Mature adults are mostly red with dark markings on the abdomen.
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Jade Hunter The Jade Hunter is a medium-sized, black and yellow dragonfly that inhabits streams and rivers in a variety of habitats from rainforest to coastal heathland.
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