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HIGHLIGHTS...
MEET IMPORTANT LOCALS

Here are some of the local friends we met... scroll down...

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FEBRUARY 20, 2022

False Garden Mantid
False Garden Mantid
False Garden Mantid
Slant-faced grasshopper
False Garden Mantid
False Garden Mantid
moth Taxeotis genus
Slant-faced grasshopper
Paper wasp
Paper wasp
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Sawfly sp (Bottlebrush?)

MARCH 6, 2022

Common grass-blue butterfly
Yellow-banded Dart
Concealer moth
Case moth shelter
Case moth (sp?)
Common Anthelid Moth
Wing possibly from Common Anthelid Moth
Native predatory wasp
Native wasp (sp?)
A beautiful egg sac
Yellow-banded Dart
Blue-banded bee
Alternanthera denticulata - Lesser Joyweed
Blue-banded bee
Slender Knotweed
Slender Knotweed with a Common Grass-Blue Butterfly on the flowers

APRIL 30, 2022

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The complexity of Box-Ironbark forest is evident throughout the year. We focused on the bark and leaves of various eucalypts for species identification. Top right - Yellow Box (Eucalyptus Melliodora) has roughly fibrous/finely tessellated bark at the base, to smooth, variably patterned upper trunk & limbs. 

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Red Stringybark close up

Red Stringybark
Eucalyptus macrorhyncha

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Red Ironbark
Eucalyptus tricarpa

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Long-leaf Box or Bundy
Eucalyptus goniocalyx

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Blue Pincushion - Brunonia australis 

Murnong/Yam Daisy - Microseris lanceolata

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Dampieria - Dampiera stricta

Common Wedge-pea - Gompholobium huegelii

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Button Everlasting - Coronidium scorpioides

Also seen were:  Chocolate lily - Arthropodium strictum;  Dianellia -  Dianella revoluta; Longhorn moth (genus, not sure of the species) were also seen, along with Common Brown Butterfly, Forester moth - Pollanisus viridipulverulenta, Net-winged Beetle, Chequered beetle (genus, not sure of the species)

FEBRUARY 2023

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TOP IMAGE:
Lampides boeticus

Long-tailed Pea-blue Butterfly

SECOND:

Hypochrysops delicia

Moonlight Jewel Butterfly

THIRD:
Chrysolopus spectabilis

Botany Bay Weevil

FOURTH:

Nacaduba biocellata
Two-spotted Line-blue Butterfly

BOTTOM:
Runcinia acuminata

Pointy Runcinia (amazing camouflage!)

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MARCH 25, 2023

Musk Lorikeet - Glossopsitta concinna. These beautiful birds are endemic to south eastern Australia.

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These amazing little constructions are made by the
nymphs of some type of tube spittlebug.
This is home!

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Mushrooms - probably a type of Inkcap

 

The eggs of a Katydid

The egg sac of a Jewel Spider

JUNE 10, 2023

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Wonderful diversity of fungi are found with careful looking. We have noticed a correlation between the health of the environment (greater diversity and abundance of locally-appropriate species) and the diversity and abundance of fungi. The relationships are innumerable and complex. 

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Elegant Blue Webcap Cortinarius rotundisporus
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AUGUST, 2022

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Fungus commonly known as White Punk (Laetiporus portentosus), usually growing on Eucalypts, often high up the trunk. Used as a fire carrier/tinder by Indigenous people in many areas.

Last season's fruiting bodies/seed capsules from a Sun Orchid. These have dried, split open to release seed, and remained standing.
 

A Nodding Greenhood, in earlier stages of flower formation.

The immature fruit of Exocarpus Cupressiformis, commonly known as Cherry Ballart, Bush Cashew or Ballee. The darker green upper part will swell and turn red, with the seed remaining on the outside. Fantastic habitat for owls and others.
 

One of the many Bitter Pea (Daviesia) species of the area. Daviesia 

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