Category: Koh Lin
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Insects and Spiders
Author Koh Lin ◦ My passion for insects and spiders has evolved over the last couple of decades when I moved from Sydney to Central Australia (20 years ago). From being squeamish about most crawling insects and spiders, it was… Continue reading
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Spiders
Author Koh Lin ◦ What has eight legs… unless it has lost a couple of legs… can be hairy or may be smooth… can be big or may be small… can be plain or can be colourful… may live in… Continue reading
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Treasures in the bower…
Author Koh Lin ◦ It has been well over a decade now… and the treasures in the bower continue… Some are refreshed, others replaced, and new items delight us. Maybe sometime soon… I should offer a gift to the Western Bower Bird… Continue reading
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Alice Springs Insects
Author Koh Lin ◦ Alice Springs is more than a home to people, it is also home to a wonderful group of insects… and as interests in them grow, there are some amazing resources for people to get involved with… Continue reading
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Such is life…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Such is life… Is a spoken phrase, that comes from the English translation of the French phrase “C’est la vie”. This in turn is said to be from the Italian phrase “Cosi va’l mondo!” (in the book A… Continue reading
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A life of music
Author Koh Lin ◦ I was never musical… Whilst there was one time, an attempt by my parents to give me piano lessons, that sadly failed — yet music did play a special part in my life. In the drawer… Continue reading
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Uriah Heep… The Magician’s Birthday
Author Koh Lin ◦ One of the many things my father did, as we were growing up, he would carefully store away parts of our youth. In one recent discovery we found among my vinyl record collection, my father had… Continue reading
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labour of love… spiders and prey
Author Koh Lin ◦ In my labour of love… series, we look at spiders in action. Whilst some species of spiders spin webs to trap and capture their prey, other spider species actively hunt for their prey. They feed on… Continue reading
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labour of love… spiders
Author Koh Lin ◦ In my labour of love… series, we look at the spiders, from the big and the small, and the bold and the beautiful. A diverse group, spiders play an important role in the eco-system, whether out… Continue reading
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In silent slumber sleep…
Author Koh Lin ◦ I have often found some of our smaller denizen in silent slumber, to all appearance no longer living… yet… on retrieving them from their watery grave, whilst some were deceased, many revived… and I have those captured moments,… Continue reading
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Cuckoo… cuckoo…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Growing up, I often associated cuckoos with birds that eject the eggs or juveniles out of the nest, to be replaced by the eggs of the Channel-billed Cuckoo. Now I know there are other creatures that are known… Continue reading
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At home with the Variable Dtella
Author Koh Lin ◦ A gecko by any other name… the Variable Dtella is often found in urban habitats, sharing our home and seen both during the day and night. A charming little reptile, that I am sure can recognise the humans… Continue reading