Honey Ants
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Giant Water Bug
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Compass Termite
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The wichetty bush (acacia kempeana) is where the grubs live. The wichetty grub lives by itself. The body is cylinder shaped, with a brown head and strong jaws. They burrow with their jaws to eat the roots of the bush, where the egg they emerged from is laid. The jaws help keep the passage underground to be large enough to move in as they grow while making the passage or chamber bigger and eating the tree sap of the roots, sawdust is mixed with silk made by the grub to fill in the opening of the hole the grub made when entering the soil, as the grub grows inside the roots for 2 years, it can be 10-15cm long. Then it changes into a moth. They only live for 2 weeks where they mate and the females lays up to 20,000 eggs. http://australianmuseum.net.au/witchetty-grubs
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These moths do not have the problem of being trapped by spider webs at night. They have loosely bounded scales that give them the ability to bounce off the web leaving only a mark of dust on the sticky web. They live in mature plants or deadwood. They breed in water when the rain comes being dormant at times. They can inhabit various climate zones.
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