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After requests by followers of our Ausemade website, we are now listing a selection of some of our new pages and changes or additions to existing pages here.

As this website is a labour of love (I work full time during the day/week), I am sometimes slow in adding new content and contributions, so please bear with me and you are always welcome to chat with me via email or through messenger on Facebook.

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As of 25 July 2026 we have published 3,613 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 405 blogs… total pages 4,018.

As of 15 July 2026 we have published 3,613 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 404 blogs… total pages 4,017.

As of 11 July 2026 we have published 3,613 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 402 blogs… total pages 4,015.

As of 8 July 2026 we have published 3,613 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 401 blogs… total pages 4,014.

As of 2 July 2026 we have published 3,612 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 400 blogs… total pages 4,012.

As of 29 June 2026 we have published 3,612 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 399 blogs… total pages 4,011.

As of 26 June 2026 we have published 3,611 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 398 blogs… total pages 4,009.

As of 20 June 2026 we have published 3,608 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 396 blogs… total pages 4,004.

As of 18 June 2026 we have published 3,608 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 394 blogs… total pages 4,002.

As of 14 June 2026 we have published 3,608 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 392 blogs… total pages 4,000.

As of 12 June 2026 we have published 3,608 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 390 blogs… total pages 3,998.

As of 7 June 2026 we have published 3,608 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 387 blogs… total pages 3,995.

As of 20 April 2026 we have published 3,600 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 366 blogs… total pages 3,966.

As of 19 April 2026 we have published 3,600 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 365 blogs… total pages 3,965.

As of 1 February 2026 we have published 3,594 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 358 blogs… total pages 3,952.

As of 26 January 2026 we have published 3,593 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 358 blogs… total pages 3,951.

As of 8 January 2026 we have published 3,591 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 356 blogs… total pages 3,947.

As of 27 December 2025 we have published 3,590 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 355 blogs… total pages 3,945.

As of 18 November 2025 we have published 3,577 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 345 blogs… total pages 3,922.

As of 7 October 2025 we have published 3,568 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 339 blogs… total pages 3,907.

As of 28 September 2025 we have published 3,567 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 338 blogs… total pages 3,905.

As of 31 August 2025 we have published 3,560 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 329 blogs… total pages 3,889.

As of 1 July 2025 we have published 3,538 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 315 blogs… total pages 3,853.

As of 30 June 2025 we have published 3,537 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 315 blogs… total pages 3,852.

As of 1 January 2025 we have published 3,312 pages (that are now LIVE, with 204 pages in draft) and a total of 270 blogs… total pages 3,582.

Some recent additions:

As of 30 December 2024 we have published 3,308 pages (that are now LIVE, with 200 pages in draft) and a total of 269 blogs… total pages 3,577.

As of 27 December 2023 we have published 2,368 pages (that are now LIVE, with 189 pages in draft) and a total of 189 blogs… total pages 2,557.

As of 20 November 2023 we have published 2,232 pages (that are now LIVE, with 186 pages in draft) and a total of 181 blogs… total pages 2,413.

We like to thank all our visitors, readers, contributors and authors.

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Introducing a selection of some of our Fauna and Flora Image Indexes

• Alice Springs Birds – image index
• Alice Springs Beetles
• Alice Springs Butterflies & Moths (Lepidopterans)
• Alice Springs Insects
• Alice Springs Moths
• Alice Springs Orthoptera – Orthopteroids
• Alice Springs True Bugs (Heteroptera)
• Birds Index
• Birds at the Ponds Index
• Castiarina Image index
• Formicidae – image index
• Diptera – image index
• Moths Index
• Wasp Index
• Spiders Index

• Banksia Index
• Eucalyptus Index
• Grasses – image index
• Grevillea Index
• Hakea Index
• Orchidaceae Index

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July 2024 – November 2024

• Alice Springs Beanie Festival
  • Alice Springs Beanie Festival 2024
  • The Sounds Created by the Land
  • Beanie Maker Artisan
• Alice Springs Fauna
  • Alice Springs Beetles
  • Alice Springs Coleoptera
  • Alice Springs Insects
  • Alice Springs Moths
  • Alice Springs Spiders
• Gold Coast Fauna
  • Gold Coast Spiders
• Southern Downs Fauna
  • Southern Downs Insects
  • Southern Downs Butterflies and Moths
  • Southern Downs Native Bees
  • Southern Downs Spiders

January 2024 – June 2024

• Alice Springs
  • Alice Springs Fauna
  • Alice Springs Insects
  • Alice Springs Spiders
• Central Coast
• Great Southern WA
• Sapphire Coast
• Stirling Range National Park
  • Stirling Range National Park Flora
• Formicidae
  • Ants

October 2023 – December 2023

• Alice Springs Fauna
  • Alice Springs Bees
  • Alice Springs Beetles
  • Alice Springs Spiders
  • Alice Springs Wasps
• Alice Springs Flora
• Alice Springs Desert Park Fauna
• Alice Springs Desert Park Flora
• Central Australia
  • Central Australia Fauna & Flora
    • Central Australia Fauna
      • Central Australia Birds
      • Central Australia Native Bees
      • Central Australia Reptiles
    • Central Australia Flora
• Adelaide Hills
  • Adelaide Hills Fauna Flora Funga
• Belair National Park
  • Belair National Park Fauna
  • Belair National Park Flora
  • Belair National Park Funga
• Funga
  • Aseroe rubra (Anemone Stinkhorn Fungus)
  • Podaxis pistillaris (Desert Shaggy Mane)
•  Beetles
  • Coleoptera (Beetles)
  • Buprestidae
    • Castiarina
      • Castiarina crenata
      • Castiarina decemmaculata
      • Castiarina rufipennis
      • Castiarina scalaris
    • Diadoxus
    • Stigmodera
    • Temognatha
• Orchidaceae
  • Caladenia barbarossa (Dragon Orchid)
  • Caladenia bryceana subsp. bryceana (Dwarf Spider Orchid)
  • Caladenia integra (Smooth-lipped Spider Orchid)
  • Caladenia lobata (Butterfly Spider Orchid)
  • Caladenia melanema (Ballerina Orchid)
  • Caladenia polychroma (Joseph’s Spider Orchid)
  • Caladenia pulchra (Slender Spider Orchid)
  • Epiblema grandiflorum (Babe-in-a-cradle Orchid)
  • Elythranthera emarginata (Pink Enamel Orchid)
  • Ericksonella saccharata (Sugar Orchid)
  • Leptoceras menziesii (Rabbit Orchid)
  • Microtis cupularis (Cupped Mignonette Orchid)
  • Pterostylis ciliata (Hairy Rufous Greenhood)
  • Pterostylis picta (Painted Rufous Greenhood)
  • Rhizanthella johnstonii (Southern Underground Orchid)
  • Spiculaea ciliata (Elbow Orchid)
  • Thelymitra sp. Ongerup (Orange Sun Orchids)
  • Thelymitra speciosa (Eastern Queen of Sheba’s)
• Flora
  • Banksia
    • Banksia caleyi (Red Lantern Banksia / Caley’s Banksia)
    • Banksia praemorsa (Cut-leaf Banksia)
  • Grevillea
    • Beefwood
  • Hakea
    • Fork Leaved Corkwood (Hakea divaricata)
    • Blue Hakea (Hakea lehmanniana)
    • Long Leaved Corkwood (Hakea lorea)
    • Needlewood (Hakea Leucoptera)
  • Lambertia sp
• Guest Authors
• Blogs
  • bares an uncanny resemblance to a bee…
  • Revision of the genus Chalcophorataenia in Australia
  • Megachile “asoc” bees
  • How do you like your Poached Eggs…
  • face markings… like the 1980’s rock band eyeliner
  • Art of Birds – Sequel
  • She wears it well…
  • She knows the Euro has been following her…
  • smaller than average little Amegilla…

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As of 21 August 2023 we have published 2,013 pages (that are now LIVE) and a total of 162 blogs… we like to thank all our visitors, readers, contributors and authors.

July 2023 – September 2023

• Alice Springs Show > Alice Springs Show 2023
• Alice Springs Public Art
• Alice Springs Street Art
  • Alice Springs Street Art Listing
• Araluen Cultural Precinct
  • Public Art / Araluen Art Collection
  • Sacred Sites and the Corkwood Tree
• Advocate Art Award
• Alice Springs Beanie Festival
  • Alice Springs Beanie Festival 2023 A traveler’s tale…
  • Beanie Maker Artisan
• Alice Springs Waste Stabilisation Ponds
  • Birds
  • Wildlife
  • Landscape of Birds at the Ponds
  • Landscape at the Ponds
• Henley on Todd
• John Flynn’s Grave Historical Reserve
• Alice Springs Fauna
  • Alice Springs Bees
    • Amegilla Bee
    • Braunsapis sp
    • Bright-white Masked Bee
    • Bush Bee
    • Ceylalitus perditellus
    • European Honey Bee
    • Golden-browed Resin Bee
    • Homalictus urbanus
    • Lasioglossum (Homalictus)
    • Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes)
    • Lipotriches
    • Megachile deanii
    • Red-headed Masked Bee
  •  Alice Springs Orthoptera
  • Alice Springs Spiders
    • Australian Golden Orb Weaver
    • Red-headed Mouse Spider
  • Alice Springs Wasps
• Alice Springs Flora
  • Alice Springs Eremophila Wildberry
  • Alice Springs Ghost Gum
  • Alice Springs MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia
  • Alice Springs Sturt’s Desert Pea
• Artists
  • Dan Murphy
  • Margaret Worthington
• Alice Springs Eateries
• Southern Downs Fauna
  • Southern Downs Native Bees
• Fauna
  • Insects
    • Bees
      • Apis mellifera
        • Apis mellifera on Black Pigweed
        • Apis mellifera on Cape Honeysuckle
        • Apis mellifera on Duranta
        • Apis mellifera on Echinacea purpurea
        • Apis mellifera on Eremophila Wildberry
        • Apis mellifera on Eucalyptus erythrocorys
        • Apis mellifera on Gazania
        • Apis mellifera on Gossypium sturtianum
        • Apis mellifera on Hakea leucoptera
        • Apis mellifera on Poppy
        • Apis mellifera on Osteospermum
        • Apis mellifera on Sturt’s Desert Pea
        • Apis mellifera on Sweet Basil
    • Green Tree Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina)
    • Ladybirds (Beetles)
      • Australoneda bourgeoisi
    • Moths
      • Saunders’ Case Moth (Metura elongatus)
        • Metura elongatus Male
    • Wasps
• Flora
  • Eremophila
  • Orchidaceae
    • Caladenia latifolia, Pink Fairies
    • Caladenia pusilla, Tiny Caladenia
    • Caleana major, Flying Duck Orchid
    • Caladenia tessellata, Thick-lip Spider Orchid
    • Dendrobium kingianum, Pink Rock Orchid
    • Dendrobium speciosum, Rock Orchid
    • Glossodia major, Wax-lip Orchid
    • Pterostylis cheraphila, Floodplain Rustyhood
• Publications & Social Media
• Blogs
  • just when you thought your day couldn’t get any worse
  • Stop thief but too late…
  • Insignis and in health…
  • I missed that first little happy dance and joy on her face…
  • His head stuck in a can…
  • suddenly I was set upon by a mob of ravenous wild bees after my toast!
  • a solitary performance
  • Not a great spot to be snoozin’ little mate…
  • Wildlife at the Beanie Festival 2023
  • Bird Watching at the Beanie Festival 2023

January 2023 – June 2023

• Fauna
• Insects
  • Amegilla aeruginosa
  • Apis mellifera
    • Black Pigweed
    • Cape Honeysuckle
    • Duranta
    • Echinacea purpurea
    • Eucalyptus erythrocorys
    • Gazania
    • Gossypium sturtianum
    • Hakea leucoptera
    • Poppy
    • Osteospermum
    • Sweet Basil
• Spiders
  • Index of Spider Images
  • Araneidae — Orb Weavers
  • Arkys
  • Arkys lancearius — Triangular Spider
  • Australian Huntsman Spider
  • Barking Spider
  • Black House Spider
  • Crab Spiders
  • Deinopidae — Net-casting Spiders
  • Dolomedes sp
  • Dolophones sp
  • Flower Spiders
  • Hackled Orbweavers (Uloboridae)
  • Jewel Spider
  • Long Jawed Spider (Tetragnatha sp)
  • Lynx Spider (Oxyopes)
  • Mangrovia albida
  • Maratus volans
    • Maratus volans Dancing
    • Maratus volans Female & Immature
    • Maratus volans Prey
  • Ogre-faced Net-casting Spider
  • Poltys sp (Twig Spider)
  • Redback Spider
  • Red-headed Mouse Spider
  • Scorpion-tailed Spider (Arachnura higginsi)
  • Thomisidae
  • Tiger Spider (Trichonephila plumipes)
  • White-spotted Swift Spider (Nyssus albopunctatus)
  • Wolf Spider

• Green Tree Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina)
• Blue Mountains
  • Blue Mountains Botanic Garden
  • Blue Mountains Fauna
  • Blue Mountains Flora
    • Mountain Devil
    • Patersonia sericea
    • Wollemi Pine
  • Blue Mountains Landscape
  • Jenolan Caves
  • Kanangra-Boyd National Park
  • Muggadah Dreaming
• Sydney
  • Sydney Art
    • a life, 2004-07
    • Interloop
    • Lloyd Rees
    • Memory is Creation Without End
    • Mermer Waiskeder (Stories of the Moving Tide)
    • Table of Love
    • Tank Stream Fountain
    • Wishing Well Fountain
  • Sydney Accommodation
  • Sydney Attractions
    • Art Gallery of NSW
    • Barangaroo
    • Fort Denison – Muddawahnyuh
    • Queen Victoria Building – QVB
    • St Mary’s Cathedral
    • Sydney City of Escalators
    • Sydney Harbour Bridge
    • Sydney Hyde Park
    • Sydney Monuments & Memorials
      • Anzac Memorial
      • Archibald Memorial Fountain
      • Biggles
      • El Alamein Memorial Fountain
      • John Dunmore Lang
      • The Legend of Islay
      • Yininmadyemi Thou didst let fall
    • Sydney Northern Beaches
    • Sydney Opera House
    • Sydney Tower
    • Sydney Town Hall
    • The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
      • Art and Sculpture
      • RBGS Fauna
      • RBGS Flora
    • Wynyard Park
  • Sydney Cityscape
    • Barangaroo
    • Central Park Mall
  • Sydney Fauna
    • Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca)
  • Sydney Flora
  • Sydney Lower North Shore
    • Balmoral
• NSW Festivals & Events
  • Sydney Festivals & Events
  • Vivid Sydney

• Blogs
  • Fear…
  • Noombat
  • Moloch horridus… my Thorny Devil
  • A man’s best friend…
  • A life of music
  • Uriah Heep… The Magician’s Birthday
  • A male red-head saved from a watery grave
  • Deceased Excitable delma
  • Egg Sacs and Ootheca
  • The Longhorn Eurynassa servillei
  • Touring the Red Centre Way with Puppy Love…
  • Those White-plumed Unexpected Moments…
  • Faces of the Blue Moon
  • Changing the rules again…
  • the young emerge
  • Becoming a widow…
  • She lives on in her chosen nest protecting the family she’s raising
  • suddenly something bigger came torpedoing out of the nest…
  • It was all over in three frames
  • In the folds of the Platypus buds
  • she said I could call her “June”
  • Elizabeth Bay
  • With the shortening of the days
  • Is your glass half full or half empty?
  • she seems to favour the Eucalypts…
  • running out of room to add new apartments…
  • not quite the surf… Lifeguard
  • Strike a pose
  • gorgeous girl, with personality
  • I needed the buzz of a New Bee fix…
  • Let us prey…
  • multicrystaline polyinverted refractionism…

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October 2022 – November 2022 – December 2022

• Northern Beaches
• Stony Range Regional Botanic Garden
  • Stony Range RBG Fauna
    • Red-tipped Crab Spider
  • Stony Range RBG Flora
    • Flannel Flower
    • Staghorn
• Tetragonula
  • Tetragonula carbonaria

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July 2022 – August 2022 – September 2022

• The unmistakable eyes… – Blog
• Little Dave’s Story (Prologue) – Blog
• Little Dave’s Story (Part 1) – Blog
• Little Dave’s Story (Part 2) – Blog
• “Little Dave” Part 3: Life after “JEZEBEL” – Blog
• “Little Dave” Part 4: “Life with Deb” – Blog
• The story of “Little Dave” Part 5: Dave the Brave – Blog
• The story of “Little Dave” Part 6: “All Settled Down” – Blog
• Little Dave Part 7: “The Conclusion” – Blog
• Alice Springs Fauna
• Alice Springs Flora
• Ghost Gums
• Inland River Red Gum
• Loving the River Red Gum
• Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Newhaven Fauna
  • Newhaven Flora
• Wildflowers of Central Australia

• 21 August 2023, published 2,013 pages + 162 blogs, total content 2,175 pages.
• 23 June 2023, published 1,880 pages + 152 blogs, total content 2,032 pages.

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