Guest Author ◦
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.
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
- 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
- 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 Da Qua David Rennie Deb Taylor Dianne Bickers Dorothy L Gary Taylor Hongming Kan Jean and Fred Hort JeLa D Ken Walker Koh Lin Marc Newman Marianne Broug Mark Hanlon Michael Doe Michael Jefferies Phil Warburton Stefan Jones Terry Dunham Toni Ryland Tony Eales