Guest Author â—¦
I’m just a girl, standing in front of a beetle, asking him ….. “What are you??????”
A wanna be amateur entomologist with no skill sets other than enthusiasm, over-excitability and an extraordinary ability to take bad photos.
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Some of Deb’s observation presented here include:
- Sapphire Coast
- South Coast
- Wallaga Lake

- Flora
- Leptospermum continentale — Prickly Tea-Tree
- Leptospermum laevigatum — Australian Tea Tree
- Fungi
- Aseroe rubra — Anemone Stinkhorn Fungus
- Insects
- Bembix palmata — Wasp (blog obliging enough to pose…)
- Castiarina andersoni — Jewel Beetle
- Castiarina bella — Jewel Beetle
- Castiarina erythroptera — Jewel Beetle
- Chrysolopus spectabilis — Botany Bay Diamond Weevil
- Cosmodes elegans — Green-blotched Moth
- Cyrioides imperialis — Jewel Beetle
- Diphucrania leucosticta — Jewel Beetle
- Orcus australasiae — Orange-spotted Ladybird
- Paropsisterna pictipes — Leaf Beetle
- Perperus lateralis — White-striped Weevil
- Rhytidoponera aspera — Rough Blue Pony Ant
- Arachnida
- Spiders
- Arkys — Ambush Spider / Triangular Spider
- Arkys walckenaeri — Walckenaer’s Studded Triangular Spider
- Celaenia excavata — Common Bird-dropping Spider
- Miturga — Prowling Spider and Southern Prowling Spider (Miturga agelenina)
- Neosparassus diana — Badge Huntsman Spider
- Neosparassus patellatus — Tasmanian Football Spider
- Nicodamidae — Red and Black Spider
- Reptile
- Eulamprus heatwolei — Yellow-Bellied Water Skink
- NATURA Far South Coast — series of newsletters
- Issue No 11 ~ February 2024
- Click here for back issues…











Check out Deb’s observations on iNaturalistAU under her profile debtaylor142
Guest AuthorsAndrew Turner Cassidy Taylor Christoph von Beeren Christopher Peacock Da Qua David Rennie Danny Thomas Deb Taylor Dianne Bickers Dorothy L Gary Taylor Hongming Kan Iskander Kaliananda Jean and Fred Hort JeLa D Ken Walker Koh Lin Marc Newman Marianne Broug Mark Hanlon Michael Doe Michael Jefferies Norm Farmer Phil Warburton Stefan Jones Terry Dunham Toni Ryland Tony Eales