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Animals of Queensland
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures
Dinosaurs and Ancient Life of Queensland
Histories of Queensland
Rocks
Environment
Behind the Scenes
Ask an expert
Future Makers
Project DIG
Museum Revealed Podcast

Insects
Reptiles
Spiders
Other Arachnids and myriapoda
Frogs
Sea life
Fishes
Crustaceans
Mammals
Molluscs
Parasites

Collecting insects
Preserving insects
What insect is that?
Insect lifecycles
Keeping Live Insects
Dangerous insects
Ants (Family Formicidae)
Butterflies and moths (Order Lepidoptera)
Grasshoppers, crickets & katydids (Order Orthoptera)
Dragonflies & damselflies (Order Odonata)
Cockroaches (Order Blattodea)
Beetles (Order Coleoptera)
Flies (Order Diptera)
Praying Mantids (Order Mantodea)
Earwigs (Order Dermaptera)
Sucking Bugs (Order Hemiptera)
Wasps and bees (Order Hymenoptera)
Lacewings

Ants
Aquatic Insects
Butterfly Caterpillars
Field Crickets
Giant Burrowing Cockroaches
Grasshoppers and Locusts
Harlequin Bugs
Meal Worms
Mosquitos
Native Bees
Silkworms
Stick Insects

Harlequin Bugs

These attractive sap-sucking bugs, Tectocoris diophthalmus, feed on various plants in the family Malvaceae including cotton, hibiscus and, especially, the native cotton tree which grows on foreshores. They can be kept alive on a potted hibiscus plant.

Adult Hibiscus Harlequin Bug guarding eggs

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