Getting muddy, touching bugs and carefully observing spiders: they’re not exactly the activities girls are encouraged to do but these women couldn’t be deterred.
For many Australians these big, ornamental-looking beetles are a happy sign of the start of the silly season – but are their numbers dwindling?
Delicate and beautiful, butterflies are also intrepid travellers, making impressive journeys across the globe.
Once classified as extinct, the Lord Howe Island stick insect is now thriving in captive breeding – but more work is needed before they are no longer critically endangered.
AG reader Ally Wilson spent hours capturing this footage of a cicada shedding its exoskeleton.
Imagine if cockroaches invaded your kitchen, and then ate it up. That’s not a far-fetched scenario, given recent evidence that termites are really tiny social cockroaches.
We’re all familiar with the sight of a bee burying its head in a flower, but what actually happens in those moments before it re-emerges, covered in pollen?
The blue tiger (top) and clearwing swallowtail are just two of the 40-plus butterfly species to be found on the South Cumberland Islands off the coast of Queensland.
Most venomous animals make up for weaker physical features with more potent toxins, but not centipedes