A Conga Line

We go for a walk most days of the week.  Our walk takes us through some beautiful Australian bush and, somehow, it seems different every day with the different light and weather conditions. If that wasn't enough to keep us motivated, every day we get to see kangaroos and a range of birdlife, including red tailed cockatoos, the occasional deer and even emus (a dad with his chicks once).  Recently the insects have been getting in on the act too. We saw a couple of things we've never seen before, a conga line of caterpillars slowly making their way across the road:

Seriously, this was the most laid-back conga line I've ever seen.  Those little furry creatures were taking their time crossing. Luckily for them it's a very quiet road.

A couple of days later we saw these in the middle of the road:

Not the cutest insects for sure.  They're the larvae of Eucalypt Sawfly or wasps.  They also get called spitfires. We've seen the adult wasps in our garden but didn't know what they were.  Now we do.   They feed on eucalypt trees (no surprises there right) and are pretty harmless.  We have no idea what they were doing hanging out in the middle of the road, of all places. Hopefully they made it across safely. 

Can't wait to see what our next surprise will be.