Showcase Australia

Category: Fauna

  • Look at me… and tell me I’m not a great pollinator…

    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

  • labour of love… native wasps

    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

  • Happy New Year… 2025

    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

  • labour of love… beetles

    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

  • Using iNaturalistAU

    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

  • labour of love… birds

    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

  • labour of love… reptiles

    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

  • labour of love… native bees

    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

  • labour of love… fauna

    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

  • Going batty…

    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 our Ausemade website… one of the… Continue reading

  • a little bee that looks like a little Crabronid wasp

    a little bee that looks like a little Crabronid wasp

    Author Koh Lin ◦ It’s either a little bee that looks like a little Crabronid wasp, or a little Crabronid wasp that looks like a little bee… It looked almost deceased, when I fished it out of the swimming pool… Continue reading

  • A male Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp

    A male Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp

    Author Koh Lin ◦ Some times I wonder… who is lucky… the insect that I have rescued from the swimming pool… or me, having the opportunity to capture some closeup photos. Here I was, doing my usual ground maintenance, when… Continue reading