Hello Chew family,
I am very excited to have just discovered your website. I love insects so I carefully examine and try to find out about those I find. I live in The Gap in Brisbane. This evening a large and noisy buzzing insect flew into my kitchen but I couldn't see what it was until it landed upside down on the floor, having escaped from a spider web. It still had bits of web stuck to its wing. It was the largest fly I had ever seen. I looked it up in Wildlife of Greater Brisbane, but I couldn't find the exact one. Judging from the shape of its body, I guessed it to be a kind of bristle fly, so I googled 'bristle fly' and the only site that actually detailed bristle flies was yours. I found a large picture of the exact fly! It was the picture of the all dark colour large green bristle fly. It has only a very faint green metallic sheen. Since finding the fly, I've spent a long time examing your site. It is incredible and your pictures are amazing!! I've downloaded the beautiful picture of the white looper for wallpaper, and put the address in my favourites. Thank you so much for all your work.
--E Sykes
<mailto:ellenpurple@hotmail.com>

Hi I just wanted to let you know that the black wasp with yellow antenna at http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_wasps/YellowAntWasp.htm
is a spider wasp
http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Spider-Wasp/Pompilidae%20family/.html
Hope that helps!

Someone needs to edit the information that you have on your website. i.e.the descriptions that you have for each of the orders of insects. There are LOTS of grammatical errors.

Hello, Chew Family,

I'm hoping you can help me. I'm writing a book and I wrote about your observation of eye spot patterns on butterflies--that small eyespots along the edges confuse predators and birds take small bites from the edge of the wing. A scientific reviewer for my book says that makes no sense and would never happen. Please, do you know of a published source that would support your hypothesis? The idea makes sense to me and I'd like to try to defned it. Please, could you email me at fbrynie19@yahoo.com.
--Faith Brynie
<mailto:fbrynie@centurytel.net>

Hello Peter and family,

I really like your ant photographs. They are so clear and close up. I notice you call the Opisthopsis sp., the Electric Ant. These are usually called the Strobe Ant because of the rapid and jerking movement. In Queensland, the Electric Ant refers to the Little Fire Ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) which fortunately for us in Brisbane has so far only been detected in some northern Cairns suburbs. There is an eradication program to rid Queensland of this invasive South American pest which also infests PNG and many Pacific Island nations. They are a tiny ant at 1.0 to 1.5mm, golden brown, all same size and can sting. You can find more on this invasive ant on the Queensland DPI&F website or Hawaiian Dept of Agrigulture website if you are interested. Keep up the good work. Wayne
--Wayne Roberts
<mailto:wayne_r_roberts @ optusnet. com.au>

Hello Chew family,
While hunting for the identification of an insect, (Katydid nymph I suspect), I came across your excellent site. I live in Gippsland, Victoria, and conduct a blog on the events in nature that occur around here - http://gouldiaesblog.blogspot.com/, but I am very much an amateur. My principal interest is birds.
Regards and thanks,
Gouldiae.
Please keep up the good work
--Gouldiae
<http://gouldiaesblog.blogspot.com/>

Fantastic photos and info on stick insect, Concerned about your mortality rate, as we have no such issues. Are you spraying with water, collecting clean leaves and giving them water.
Do you ues aerosol sprays?