More insects in our garden

The more you look for insects and spiders in the garden the more you find. It's a pity you don't always have the camera on hand. Some times the little buggers (pun foolishly intended) are just too quick or camera shy. I've missed a shot of a large butterfly that may have been an Evening Brown, a fast-moving bright red wasp that may have been a Spider Wasp, a small spider trying to take a ride on a sheet into the washing machine and a small swarm of wasps checking out our Caliandra shrub for prey. Ants can be really hard to focus on but one played an accidental cameo role in the shot of another insect today.

Ant on Frangipani. It might be a Banded Sugar Ant (Camponotus consobrinus - ID source OzAnimals) as it looks like it is herding aphids. I haven't been looking for the nest.

Unidentified bug on Frangipani. Check out the antennae!

Unidentified wasp on Caliandra. I could not work out if it was fighting a large ant that refused to be paralysed or if one of the sexes in wingless and it is mating. No idea.

I think this is the home of the wasps that were checking out the Caliandra with one left on guard duty. They are probably Polistes spp.. (ID source - Wildlife of Greater Brisbane) as their nest is the right shape and it is located under the eaves of our laundry area.

Unidentified silvery chrysalis on Caliandra stem. I've also seen a couple on the wires of the clothes line.