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Dune Glider
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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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Insects
Dragonflies |
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Common Glider
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The Common Glider is a moderately large dragonfly that inhabits a wide range of standing waters, including temporary ponds. Adults have a brownish thorax with darker stripes on the sides and a tan to reddish abdomen. The base of each hindwing has a dark red to black patch.
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Insects
Dragonflies |
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Wandering Glider
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The Wandering Glider is a moderately large, yellowish to orange-yellow dragonfly with a line of dark markings along the top of the abdomen. It breeds in a wide range of standing waters, including temporary ponds. Adults can be found far from water.
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Insects
Dragonflies |
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Brown Tiger Prawn
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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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Crustaceans
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Pygmy Wisp
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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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Insects
Damselflies |
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Red-rumped Wisp
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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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Insects
Damselflies |
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