One small place on earth

Tube-dwelling Spider – Segestriidae sp. Palm Grove National Park.  Repurposing of a habitable place which may or may not be made by an animal, is used by creatures in different parts of the world (tree hollows readily […]

Common Large Paper Wasp – Polistes variabilis, house eve, North Tamborine.  This is the fourth and final paper wasp nest in my Animal Builders album.  It belongs to the same genus as the smaller wasp which […]

This marvelously engineered nest is quite a contrast to that of the tawny frogmouth. The brown gerygone is a small, insectivorous bird which is native to eastern coastal Australia.  The nest is an oval tapered […]

Tawny Frogmouth Nest – Podargus strigoides, garden, Eagle Heights.  I filmed the nest two days before I took the photo in November 2020, when there were two nestlings.  From the sublime, think willie wagtail, spectacled monarch, […]

Yellow Paper Wasp Nest – Ropalidia romandi, dwelling, Eagle Heights.  The nest consists of an outer papery layer covering horizontal rows of combs and is unlike the clusters of the other three paper wasp nests in […]

Net-casting spider – Menneus superciliosus, Palm Grove National Park.  As with case moth larvae, so with net-casting spiders, both are master builders.  This is the fourth species of net-casting spider I have filmed on the mountain.  […]

Leaf Case Moth Larva – Hyalarcta huebneri, picket fence, Driscoll Lane.  It bears repeating that here is another mobile home, ingeniously assembled by a caterpillar.  This is the sixth case moth species in the album, half […]

Paper Wasp Nest 2 – Polistes humilis, metal railing, Panorama Point.  This is a native wasp which is found in every Australian state except Tasmania.  Wasps have a poor reputation because of their painful sting, which […]

Dome Web Spider – Cyrtophora moluccensis, garden, Eagle Heights.  Although the spider is an orb-weaver, its web is horizontal and domed, rather than vertical. It is native to India, Japan, Indonesia and PNG, inter alia.  In […]

Brush Turkey Mound – Alectura lathami, property, North Tamborine.  I wonder how many of you have seen a turkey mound, which is solely built by the male.  It contains up to four tons of material, comprising leaf litter, […]