Nick Volpe
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Wildlife Photographer/Filmmaker 📸 🐍🦂 Saving our forgotten species ➡️
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After a couple years of hard work, we are proud to share our 'Frogs of Darwin' & 'Invertebrates of Darwin' posters are ready! 🐸🪲🦋
Just in time for the beginning of the wet season, grab these A2 posters to learn more about the incredible creatures!🐜✨
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High tide in the mangroves is so special, listen to how peaceful it is 😌
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Can’t stop thinking about this Trilobite Beetle we found in Borneo a few years ago. WHAT IS THIS DINOSAUR!? 🦖
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I FOUND A NEW ZEALAND LEAF SLUG 🤯💚
This is the BEST DAY EVER!!!!!!!! 😌🥝
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The indisputable Queen of central Australia! 👑🏜️
Paronchestus are one of the most incredible stick insects in Australia, living in some of the most barren terrains! ☀️
This poor girl was caught out in a storm at night, most likely blown out of a tree! 🌳💨
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Sound on to hear two PISTOL shrimp in combat and also my disbelief at this crustacean situation 🦞
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Ummm magical sea-slug or pretty leaf? 🍃
The Mangrove Sea-slug flattens itself out to look like a fallen leaf to avoid predation in creeks! 💚
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NEW ZEALAND PICKLE SLUG! 🥒
One of the coolest invertebrates living in the wet forests of New Zealand are the impressive Leaf-veined Slugs! 🌳
They are active on wet nights, where they slide their pickle-body around on trees and leaves to feed on algae! 🌿
To say I was excited
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WE FOUND A PICKLE SLUG! 😱💚 Check out this beautiful Giant Leaf Slug from New Zealand!!! 🌳
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The odd frog out! 🐸
No this isn't something from another planet, but something that lives exclusively in the sand dunes around Perth! 😮
The strange termite-eating Turtle Frog is named so because it looks like a turtle without its shell! 🐢 (1/3)
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NO NO NO NO NO WAYYYY I FINALLY SEEN A YELLOW MONSOON MANTIS OH YESSSSSSS 🤯💛
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TWITTER!🤯
That is two STONEFISH! (worlds most venomous fish) buried in the mud waiting for the tide to come back in!
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Twitter is so dead.
I ONLY like bug photos but my feed is full of pro trump, anti transgender and anti refugee posts and all the other hate that Elon spews (who I’m not even following). This is disgusting…
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A DRAGON FLOWER MANTIS!!!!🤯🤯🤯
STOP whatever you are doing RIGHT NOW! 🚨🐉
This mantis nearly made my heart give out! 💗
The Dragon Flower Mantis (Toxodera integrifolia) from Malaysia is by far the most amazing insect I’ve so far had the pleasure of meeting!!! 🌳
Their
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Have you ever heard of the GIANT Squirrel? 🐿️
One of the most amazing animals I got the chance to see in the rainforests of Thailand was the incredible Black Giant Squirrel! 🌳
They can reach almost a metre in length, with over half of that being that amazing long bushy tail!✨
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THE QUEEN OF THE DESERT!!😱🏜️
How insane is this GIANT Paronchestus Stick Insect from Central Australia!! 🧡
Sleep deprived, but how worth to see this rare big girl walking on the road!!!! We safely put her back in a tree! 🌳
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Little Muddie gang scooting over their boardwalk territory 🛴
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!!!!!!!!!!
Red-triangle Slug 😍😍😍
Can’t breathe too excited 😳
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Sleeping Blue-bum Bees! 🐝😴
Here are the SPECTACULAR Northern Blue Banded Bees (Amegilla walkeri) roosting from my video the other day! 💙
Males group together to roost at night on a small exposed stick like this. If a predator was to walk up the branch and shake it they would
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Twitter LOOOOOOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL CENTRALIAN BLUE TONGUE!!! 🧡👀
I URGE you to love it!!! 🦎
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I AM CRYING!!!! 😭🐥
Honestly the coolest birding experience I’ve ever had!!! 🤎
It may seem dumb but to see these cryptic birds up close is SOOO special! 😍
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WOWWWW! Check out the amazing Carpet Flatworm!!! 😍🧡
Honestly, how do animals like this even exist?? How beautiful is it! ☀️🪸
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How beautiful is this Katydid I saw yesterday I CAN’T EVEN!!! 🥺🥰💚
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Check out this special bat! 👻🦇
The Ghost Bat is an endangered carnivorous bat found in northern Australia. Roosting in caves & large rock crevices during the day, it emerges at night to hunt its favourite prey, rodents & geckos! 🦎🐭
(Thats what those teeth are for … 😳) 1/2
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BLUE BANDED BEES SLEEPING!!! 🐝💙😴
EEEEEEEEE !!!
How amazing to see these beautiful native bees roosting at night! There are multiple species of Blue-banded Bees across Australia and they are such important pollinators to keep our environment healthy! 🌼🌳
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Twitter here it is! The world's smallest Cephalopod! 🦑
Now this little thing is going to get a whole lot cuter when I tell you to look down at your thumbnail, because that is how big it is! 🥺
The Tropical Pygmy Squid (Idiosepius pygmaeus) grows to a maximum size 15mm! (1/4)
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TWITTERRRRRRR! 🐙
I DID A FIND OF ANOTHER BLUE RINGED!!!🧡💙
This is the best week ever!! 😭😭
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A WALKING SHARK!! 🤯🦈
One of the most beautiful fish in Darwin, the Speckled Carpet Shark walks around the low tide looking for prey! 🐟
I SHAKE in excitement everytime I see one of these incredible animals!!!!!!!! 🥹😍
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CRUSTACEAN IN A TREE!! 🤯🤯🤯
I have seen it all now!! A HUGE Lamington Spiny Crayfish just WALKING up a tree in Queensland’s rainforests!!🌳💙
These AMAZING crayfish are a threatened species and they only live in the picturesque mountain streams of the Gold Coast hinterland!
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SURPRISE SEA SNAKE!!!!🤯🐍
Whilst we were deep in mud photographing mudskippers, I noticed a shrimp goby jump infront of me (initial reaction) before realising it was being folllwed by a venomous Black-ringed Mangrove Snake!!!!! 💛🖤
These snakes are actually a type of sea
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AINT NO WAY WE JUST FOUND OUR FIRST OSMYLID LACEWING IN MIDDLE OF GEELONG CBD 🤯🤯🤯
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TWITTER I am actually crying because I caught a very good Gasteruption Wasp I’ve never seen before!!!!!!! 😭🥰🥰
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TWITTER can you believe Lanternbugs exist?!
Like wow tell your friends about these bugs they’re the best!! 💚
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BIRDS IN THE WORLD LANDED IN FRONT OF ME! 🥰🥰🥰
Such a special morning spending time with a flock of Gouldian Finches in the outback Northern Territory! ✨
Does it get any better!!! 🌈
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🚨I am absolutely beyond shocked at how invasive and fire-fuelling Buffel Grass has COMPLETELY overtaken eco-systems in central Australia recently. 🔥
Everywhere we go, driving for hours, it honestly beggars belief. This is an absolute climate and biodiversity emergency. 🦎❌
We
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Cycads peaking! Love this scenery after burns in the Too End! 🌴🔥
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Twitter, in all their glory, the Gouldian Finch.
Most incredible morning spent yesterday watching these birds feeding on grass seed 💚🌈
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I FOUND A CHARIZARD!!! 🤯🔥
How crazy is this Nudibranch! 🧡
Widespread and variable in colour throughout the Indo-Pacific, it is a beautiful orange colour in the murky waters of Darwin Harbour! 🌊
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Me GUARDING a golden-bummed bee so she can sleep peacefully away from predators!!! 😤🐝✨
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DEMON CATERPILLAR! 😈🐛
How crazy is this !??!?? 🤯
This is called the LOBSTER MOTH CATERPILLAR because of the bizarre extensions on it! 🦞🕷️
One of the weirdest critters I saw in Japan and one of the first times I’ve been genuinely stumped at what an animal was in the field !
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CUTE SNOOT ALERT! 🥹
WOW only the second echidna I’ve seen around Darwin! 😍🙏
Not too common here!
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WOBBBBLEGOOOONG 😍😍😍
Beautiful Northern Wobbegong in Darwin Harbour! 🌊
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The Dragon Flower Mantis!! 🐉🌸
One of the most BEAUTIFUL insects in the entire world, this master of camouflage has taken evolution to a new level! 🤯
This mantis, Toxodera integrifolia, blends perfectly into the dense rainforest foliage by looking and moving exactly like a
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A WOBBEGONG Shark on a windy low tide session in Darwin! 🦈🌊
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Green Ant Mimicking Spider feeding on its favourite prey 😋🐜🕷💚
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A NEW species of Peacock Spider, but with a sombre fate. 🌈🦚 😔
Last October,
@LucynakWild
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and I found this incredible Peacock Spider in the dunes of Eglinton in Western Australia. The only area this spider has ever been found in is designated as a future housing
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Twitter I hope school of baby catfish is something you enjoy ☺️🦈
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It’s a buzzing Blue Banded Bee!!! 🐝💙
Our native bees are important pollinators & are essential to a healthy environment!🌳
These bees are buzz pollinators which means they grab onto the flower and vibrate their flight muscles fast to dislodge and cover themselves in pollen!🌼
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Slow down your day and chill with the Golden Land Snail for a minute 🐌💛
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Omg I just want to be back in the desert again hugging my true love … spinifex! 😭☀️
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Behold, the beautiful Blue-banded Bee! 🐝💙
Sitting ever so delicately on my finger, it is a great opportunity to appreciate the hard-work these native bees do in pollinating and keeping our eco-systems healthy! 🌳
Have you ever been lucky enough to see a bee of the Amegilla
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For anyone wondering how small Australia's famous Peacock Spiders are!
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WOWWWWWWW LOOOOOOOK at this AMAZING HAWK MOTH and his FLUFFLY POKÉMON TAIL! 😍😍
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TWITTER look how proud my nonna is in this photo she sent me of a BIG zucchini from her garden 🇮🇹
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I FOUND A VINEGAROON!!! 🤯🥵
One of the coolest arachnids ever, I was so shocked to see one in Fiji a couple of days ago!! 🇫🇯🌏🗺🍃
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BUGS!!!! RAIN IN THE DESERT OMG!!!⛈️🏜️🤯
The central Australian deserts explode with activity after rain!!!! 🦂😍
I was so lucky to experience a night of action last month when a late afternoon storm brought out a whole heap of critters I've never seen before!! 🐸
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OH my goodness 😍😍😍
Drosera falconeri at its absolute best! ☀️
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SOOO MANY SLEEPING BLUE BEES!!!🐝💙
It was so amazing to see a large group of Blue-banded Bees roosting together at night in the rainforests of Cairns!! 😍🌳
The boys will all sleep together on the skinniest sticks for protection, with any movement on the branch alerting them
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GOUUUULDIAAAANS WOWWWWW😍😍😍
My fave photo I’ve taken of the rainbow finches! 🌈
This is when they visited Lee Point in Darwin last year!
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Twitter ALL I want to do is travel rainforests and take photos of bugs! 😭🌳
I just want to show everyone the amazing world we are all so lucky to live in!!!
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MY BODY IS IN SHOCK! I got to see the Albany Pitcher Plants this morning and I ….. wow! I can’t even get over these rare and unique plants. ✨
Wowwwww I’m still speechless.
Will edit more photos and share more info when I properly collect myself 🤯
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PICKLE SLUG!!! 🥒
One of the COOLEST animals in New Zealand! 🌿
These amazing slugs eat algae on leaves on wet nights! 🌧️💚
Video is back due to popular demand! 🥹😍
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ALWAYS look and admire the great Northern Wobbegong Shark!!! 😍
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Best way to spend a day off! Look at the colour of this water 💙
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The BLUEST BEE of them all! 🐝💙
WOW! Is the only word I had when I saw possibly the most beautiful bee in the world in Malaysia, the Blue Carpenter Bee! 🤯🌳
This ENORMOUS BLUE FUZZBALL makes the loudest buzzing sound as it flies around the rainforest looking for flowers! 🌸
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As horrific as it sounds, it is clear to me now that my work as a wildlife photographer is to no longer celebrate our natural world, but to create a library of what once was. 📷😔
Every day around the world we see stories of our eco-systems collapsing and we are losing abundance
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Hello Burtons Legless Lizard 👀
Yes, he is a lizard with no legs that only eats other lizards! 🦎
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Have you ever seen a green striped bee? 🐝💚
Nomia Bees are beautiful native bees that can be found Australia wide! They are fantastic pollinators and can be found buzzing around flowers during the day! 🌸☀️
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When I left Melbourne 5 years ago I gave my Blue-tongue to my granddad and LOOOOK how proud he is of how healthy it was when I got to see it again yesterday 🥰🦎
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My Darwin Giant Stick Insect passed today and it was the largest insect I’ve ever seen 🤯🥲
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TIMELINE CLEANSE! ✨✨✨
BUUUUUGS!
This place is pretty crazy and political at the moment, so heres a thread on some of my FAVOURITE bug photos! 🦋🐞🐝
Retweet everyone! 🐌
First is the amazing and prehistoric looking Trilobite Beetle from the rainforests of Borneo! 🌳
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I FOUND AN OTWAYS CARNIVOROUS SNAIL I AM SO SO HAPPY 🐌🖤
Twitter I’m being SERIOUS look how good it is and it eats other snails!!
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The millipede diversity of the remnant rainforests of south-east Queensland is amazing! 😍🌳
These three species were found underneath the same log! 🪵
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THICC CICADA!! 👀💚
How amazing is this chunky Bottle Cicada!!!
A super unique species, they are found in the rainforests of SE Qld where they make a loud whistle sound on sunset! 🌳🌅
I was so happy finding this cool bug at Mount Glorious!!
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Golden Eye! ✨🦎
One of the most spectacular eyes in the world, the Soft Spiny-tailed Gecko is found in the diverse heathland of south-western WA. Like most members of the Strophurus genus, it can squirt a sticky fluid from pores on its tail to deter predators such as birds. 🐦
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THE BIG NUDI !!!!! 😍🪸
I still can’t BELIEVE I got to see a wild Three-lobbed Nudibranch I am ECSTATIC!! 🤩🧡
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Lichen Huntsman from Thailand in May. 🌳
I'M LICHEN IT !!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍🕷️
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The ghosts of the invertebrate world 👻
This real-life alien is the extraordinary Gasteruption Wasp (Gasteruption angusticeps). 👽
Over the last few months I have shared a few images of insects with interesting parasitic life histories and this wasp is no exception! (1/4)
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The sad moment this Green Ant Mimicking Spider goes for a hug but I ignore it 🥲🥲🥲
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