Category: Alice Springs

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  Whose there…

  Author Andrew Turner ◦ When all there is… Is a piece of reflective glass… But then you know, that one of them knows…. Grammatically it is “Who’s there?”…. but these birds don’t speak… they just babble 🙂😄🙃 See our Alice… Continue reading

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  Time to play…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ Following on from our blog There’s more than size, when opposite attracts, another look at the escapades of the males and the female… when it is time to play for the Australian Goldern Orb Weaver Spiders… 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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  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

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  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

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  Dingo encounters…

  Author Andrew Turner ◦ Since living in Central Australia, we have crossed paths with dingoes many times… and grown very fond of the Canis dingo (formerly Canis lupus dingo). We learnt about dingoes when we saw the “dog fence” at… Continue reading

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  Wildlife… a taste of Alice

  Author Koh Lin ◦ Who hasn’t heard about Alice Springs… it is a wild place… and home to more then just art and culture… it is home to many creatures big and small… Ok… we may not have the biggest… Continue reading

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  A Hawk Moth in Alice…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ I love seeing large moths… and in particular the beautiful Convolvulus Hawk Moth (scientific classification Agrius convolvuli). I stumbled across this specimen on one of my daily working rounds in Alice Springs… it was just lying… Continue reading

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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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  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