100 AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES, BEES, BEETLES & BUGS
The world knows something about our weird and wacky mammals, but Australia also punches above its weight when it comes to the wonderful world of insects. Of the estimated 200,000-plus native species, only 62,000 have been named. Self-described “sucker for nature” Georgia Angus has collected 100 of her favourite pollen snufflers, nectar slurpers and sapsuckers, from bogong moths to witjuti grubs, from the yellow admiral butterfly to the, for example, is cut down to size — roughly the length of one finger joint — by its name in Gumbaynggirr language: , or “fly”.
