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Rediscovering our long-lost Insects
Author Phil Warburton ◦ As amateur naturalists, we are fortunate to live in the Eurobodalla, because the South Coast is home not only to a wide variety of plant, bird, mammal, reptile, and other species, but also to several rarely… Continue reading
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And the flavour of the month goes to… Megachile aurifrons!
Author Gary Taylor ◦ And the flavour of the month goes to… Megachile aurifrons! Well done Fronsy! There’s been some great pics… I didn’t get any 😅 In the first pic she seems to have small eyes and a weirdly… Continue reading
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Nothing to do on a hot afternoon…
Author Andrew Turner ◦ When there’s nothing to do… on a hot afternoon… here in Central Australia we can at least go down to the local waterhole… Oh… it looks like someone else has the same idea… This is the… Continue reading
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Great Southern Banksias
Author Terry Dunham ◦ Flowering of the Banksias in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia… Following include Banksia coccinea, Banksia sphaerocarpa, Banksia baxteri, Banksia grandis, Banksia nutans, Banksia attenuata and Banksia media flowering now (January 2024) in the Great… Continue reading
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The Punk Ant
Author Matthew Connors ◦ Alright, it’s time! Finally, I present to you all: The Best Ant! Isn’t she beautiful?? This gorgeous girl is a major worker of Camponotus thadeus, or as I like to call her, the Punk Ant 😂… Continue reading
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A few thousand tenebrionid beetles…
Author Mark Hanlon ◦ I recently donated a few thousand tenebrionid beetles to the WA Museum (among a larger donation of specimens from a collection I acquired recently). Included were a number of specimens that had come from the HW… Continue reading
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As the platypus season comes to an end…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ As the platypus season comes to an end, I’m still putting matching socks together… metaphorically of course (and coming up with sentences no one in the world has ever spoken before… 😆). So first pic is… Continue reading
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After 6 years, I believe your bee is…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Six years… So I went back out for another go at getting a pic of the face of the big black Megachile (1st pic) I’d seen over the last few weeks but alas I fear her… Continue reading
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More treasures to be had…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Looking beyond the bower… Our Western Bowerbird has been around for many years now… from our very first blog Treasures of our Western Bowerbird (July 2020), we wrote about the bower being there in our garden… Continue reading
Posted in: Alice Springs, Australia, Birds, Blog, Central Australia, Fauna, Flora, Guest Author, Koh Lin, Northern Territory -
Popping the caps off Eucalyptus platypus flowers like champagne corks…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I have previously seen the Megachile canifrons (a resin bee) popping the caps off Eucalyptus platypus flowers like champagne corks to get to the fresh new pollen and nectar within, but it was so fast I… Continue reading
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memories of my father…
Author Koh Lin ◦ I often think of my father… catching fragments of memories from my youth and the times that have indelibly kept a place in that space called memories… Yet it is strange, how sometimes just a simple… Continue reading
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Precious Jewels…
Author Marianne Broug ◦ There is a new treasure hunt to be had, as you explore our beautiful national parks… Like little precious gems, the glimmer of their colours that catches your attention… a little exhaled gasp of air, admiring… Continue reading