What’s bugging us? Meet the insect species crawling back for the Australian summer

As well the migration of flies from the bush, we can welcome swarms of butterflies, shiny Christmas beetles and ladybirds

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Global heating, pesticides and habitat loss are devastating insect populations – but in Australia we’re already seeing summer bug eruptions, both wanted and unwanted.

The Bureau of Meteorology’s long-range forecast is for a warmer and wetter than usual summer for most of the country, an ideal environment for many insect species.

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