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Favourite set: Shelter

These are all animals using shelters like nests, burrows, retreats and shells. I have collected this set for my Class 1PW.

  • Chitons - Class Polyplacophora
  • Sheet Web of Black House Spider, Badumna insignis
  • A Jumping Spider's silken retreat and egg sac
  • Bird feeding a spider to chicks
  • Flame Robin at nest feeding young
  • Golden Whistler at nest feeding young
  • Great Cormorant at the nest with young
  • Superb Lyrebird at Nest
  • New Holland Honeyeater
  • Crested Pigeon sitting in nest
  • Chiton Illustration
  • Little Penguin Illustration
  • Orange Triton Illustration
  • Pond Snail Illustration
  • White's Seahorse Illustration
  • Clown Anemonefish Illustration
  • Chitons on a rock.
  • Goose barnacles on edge of wharf
  • Acorn Barnacle
  • Hermit crab on pebbles
  • Hermit crab without shell
  • A collection of Limpets Cellana tramoserica
  • Zebra Snail showing variations in pattern
  • Turban Snails on beach
  • Little Blue Periwinkle grouped together
  • Violet Snail with bubble float
  • Single Funnel Ant nest entrance
  • Funnel Ant nest entrances
  • Mud-dauber wasp placing spider in nest
  • Seed husks around ants' nest
  • Trapdoor spider burrow entrance
  • Blue Mountains Funnel-web burrow
  • Ringtail Possum in drey
  • Paper wasps on nest under leaf
  • Blue Mountains Funnel-web burrow with triplines
  • Termite nest in tree fork
  • Egg sacs and retreat of Magnificent Spider
  • Leaf-curling Spider in retreat
  • Black House Spider in sheet web
  • Termite mound
  • Sugar Ant colony

Created by: Teilo Oakley-Evans
Last updated: 21 October 2009

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