Category: Koh Lin

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  How blue is black…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ Sometimes the common name can provide all you need to know… but now and again, it may not say enough. Life is funny like that, as what you see at that moment, may not be the… Continue reading

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  urbanum or urbanus…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ The question is… “Lasioglossum (Homalictus) urbanum” and “Homalictus urbanus”, the same bee, so which is the correct spelling “urbanum‘ or “urbanus” … ALA has “Lasioglossum (Homalictus) urbanum“. Cath McInnesSame bee, different classification. See linkNow that Homalictus… Continue reading

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  Skippy, Kangaroos and Wallabies

  Author Koh Lin ◦ I have this memory as a teenager, when we first learnt that we were coming to Australia to live, of expecting to see a kangaroo hopping down the streets of Sydney… this was back in the… Continue reading

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  flying so close…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ When she wants to fly around you… stop… be still… and observe… It is amazing to see Mother Nature so close… but I had to draw a line, when she was checking out my ankles as… Continue reading

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  Intertwined…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ No matter how you view it… events in your life cross and overlap… if it wasn’t for this, that would not have happened… do we call it fate… or was it meant to be… The beginning…… Continue reading

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  The Aussie salute…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ Many Ozzies would know about the “Aussie salute“, whilst others might know it as the “Barcoo salute” (being named after the region around the Barcoo River in Queensland)1. The “Aussie salute” refers to the gesture that… Continue reading

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  What a Wonderful World…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ One of my favourite songs growing up is What a Wonderful World, as sung by Louis Armstrong… the words resonating in my working day and through my life… I see trees of green, red roses too…… Continue reading

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  My heart at the tail end

  Author Koh Lin ◦ It started like any other day at work.. although I was feeling a little low. I actually felt heavy in the heart, possibly all that bad news on the television and the internet and thinking of… Continue reading

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  the cool embrace…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ In the cool embrace… a sleep that slowly ebbs…but not today… Retrieved from a swimming pool in Alice Springs, this Lasioglossum dotatum native bee, initially looked deceased. But life returned and it soon revived, shook off… Continue reading

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  Not so squeamish now…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ I remember once, I use to be squeamish about touching bugs and things… just as sad, was if they were in the home, as out came that spray or shoe… but times have changed. Since my… Continue reading

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  Different enough superficially to make you think…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ Sometimes a photograph can be definitive… especially when Google say this is Nyssus coloripes (Spotted Ground Swift Spider)… but the photo only shows white spots… And then you see the same but different spider (on the… Continue reading

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  Predator and Prey…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ There is something tasty to be had… in a visual feast… Many thanks to our contributors… Check out not quite the surf… Lifeguard and other blogs by Koh Lin. Footnote & References Continue reading