Category: Fauna
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No clue have I
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Yet another windy week, makes for lots of photo deleting as it is without accidentally and unknowingly changing the mode setting on your camera to 20 frames per shot (I’d reckon it was while being dragged… Continue reading
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is it still really necessary to get pinned specimens in order to get published?
Author Phil Warburton ◦ I found this interesting wasp at the Ulladulla Wildflower Reserve on the NSW south Coast. I believe it is a Calopompilus sp. and I think it is an undescribed species. We can quickly eliminate 10 of… Continue reading
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Look at me… and tell me I’m not a great pollinator…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Strolling through the parks and gardens, links us with the natural world around us. The enjoyment of a national park and a botanic garden provides us with the connection to mother nature. A closer look at… Continue reading
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labour of love… native wasps
Author Koh Lin ◦ Continuing on with my labour of love… we have open our eyes to the many wasps that are found here in Australia. Indeed, it is the mud wasps that first kindled our interests, especially seeing them… Continue reading
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Happy New Year… 2025
Author Koh Lin ◦ Welcome to 2025, the first flower from our Stapelia next to our fish pond. Then a stroll in our backyard, to our forever bower of the Western Bowerbird, still adorn with treasures that have been continually… Continue reading
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labour of love… beetles
Author Koh Lin ◦ Continuing on with my labour of love… it has been amazing to discover the many species of beetles found here in Australia belonging to the order Coleoptera… some very small to large, from the typical brown… Continue reading
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Using iNaturalistAU
Author Koh Lin ◦ Like many of us, we often seek help with identification of flora and fauna. Some resources that we at AusEmade use in our research are iNaturalistAU and Atlas of Living Australia. We also use a number… Continue reading
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labour of love… birds
Author Koh Lin ◦ With my labour of love… another popular subject are birds… class Aves. We are certainly grateful to the many contributors and authors on this topic, including Dorothy Latimer, whose many photographs and blogs have been a… Continue reading
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labour of love… reptiles
Author Koh Lin ◦ With my labour of love… I have been really lucky to see so many different species of reptiles in the flesh, as well as enjoying the photographs from our many contributors and authors. We thank them… Continue reading
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labour of love… native bees
Author Koh Lin ◦ Continuing on with my labour of love… there has been a huge surge of interest in native bees over the last couple of years… and we thoroughly enjoyed presenting some of the native bees found here… Continue reading
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labour of love… fauna
Author Koh Lin ◦ Continuing on with my labour of love… it has been a real pleasure exploring the fauna that live here in Australia. From our mammals, marsupials, birds, reptiles through to many insects and spiders. The world of… Continue reading
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Going batty…
Author Koh Lin ◦ When we were shown this deceased bat in Alice Springs, which was identified as a Finlayson’s Cave Bat (Vespadelus finlaysoni)… it got us thinking… what “bats” do we have on the Ausemade… and one of the… Continue reading