AUSTRALASIAN WARNING COLOURS
(#2 Sting & Bite)
     
     

Advertising your on-board weaponry has undoubted benefits against predators.
Wasps with their stings and bugs with their bites and bad smells are common
users of warning colours.
back to #1 Distasteful & Poisonous

Many more species available
 
 
0213: Vespid Wasp
Abispa ephippium
Northern N.S.W. & QLD
0214:Velvet Ant
Ephutomorpha venusta
Perth, WA

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0215: Reduviid Bug
Havinthus sp.
Walcott Inlet, WA
 
0044: Ground Assassin Bug
Pirates sp.
Mt. Whaleback, WA

 
0217: Yellow-speckled Ground Huntsman
Neosparassus sp.
Cheyne Beach, WA
0218: South-western Red and Black Spider
Nicodamus mainae
South-western WA,