about 8 mm length. On kangaroo grass.
caught on sticky leaves of Drosera aberrans
In pitfall trap carried out under SA permit. Second photo shows our final view as it headed for cover in a spinifex tussock.
Emerged from silk cocoons next to dead Cabbage Moth butterfly.
Bodies are about 3mm long, Antennae about the same.
Initially bright orangey-yellow aging to orange then orangey-brown, and finally grey.
On damp leaf litter, bark and grass leaves under canopy of Acacia after rain.
Had appeared about 1-2 weeks earlier a metre away and only lasted a couple of days or so.
Images 10 to 12 were taken ex situ after it had been removed to a dry environment and were photographed 3 days later on 14 Jun 2022.
Images 13 & 14 of spores were taken under a microscope by T. Lebel.
Definitely an unusual shell for this area ... I took a punt on the initial ID
Ahh, the games Galahs play ...
Several fell out of compost bin
Monarch caterpillar with parasitoid
Host species is Acacia pycnantha
Found wriggling next to a rain moth on the ground. Does not appear to have a head. Approx 25 cm long.
A very large moth. I don't think I've seen this species before. It seemed to emerge from a Dianella when I watered it, but might have just come out of the mulch.
I didn't know they fed on lerps...
Follow up to observation last week. Sorry I can't get a clearer photo - they move quickly and are shy
This tiny spider trapped and killed the wasp.
Not sure?
I've seen funnel ant nests before and they look the same, but I've never seen the ground strewn with them all so close together.
The whole reserve was covered with them; thousands of them, but in patches like this.
Quite deep, so not echidna nor antlions.
The 2nd photo is an attempt to show many more, with those from the 1st photo on the top left.
Just captured a hover fly of some type. Note both male and female in image 3
Imprint of an Eagle ray in the sand at low tide, showing detail from the gills
Red Mallee (Eucalyptus oleosa)
making a successful drop from low hover to catch an invertebrate
First record from the nursery, looks like the naturalised hills population is still expanding. There is a slim possibility it could be a stowaway arriving in tube stock from Murray Bridge. Relocated to a planted terrarium. Will be interesting to see if any others turn up over the next few months, and what impact it has on the resident population of L. ewingii.
This beetle was approx 20mm long and ran VERY fast across the salt-crusted surface of the salt lake. There were a few of them scuttling around.
Attracted to light at night in suburban back yard.
This is a different nest to the other, but was in the same bush and shows the fertile eggs as black, and then the hatchlings. They didn't survive unfortunately as we didn't know that they feed on lichen, not the senna leaves.
Measured larva was ~1.5mm long
Pupa:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/108340543
Adult Female:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/108340683
Eggs:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/108340774
Different eggs that hatched:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/108341332
2 parasites caught on a puffer.
Noticed this 'worm' wriggling out of this squished white tail spider.
So I know that this is a sulphur crested cockatoo but I'm a bit confused about the difference in it's crest and eye area. The crest looked quite orange and also a bit shorter than the others and the area surrounding the eyes also appeared different to the others as you can see in the second picture.
I didn't have much luck finding a definitive answer for this via google so, is this likely a genetic variation of some sort? Or a hybrid? I know nothing about hybrid cockatoos.
Observed during a permitted Fire Recovery Walk in Scott Creek Conservation Park as part of the Nature Festival.
Butterfly laying eggs on a small Senna artemisioides ssp. coriacea.
Large numbers resting in bushes and caught in cobwebs. Many have been the reason for unusually large numbers of tree martins. Length ~10mm.
Citrullus lanatus at Tippipilla Creek in the Tirari Desert along the Birdsville Track in South Australia. Photographed on 4 May 2016.
Identified by Ian Telford, University of New England, pers. comm. May 2016, and who stated "C. lanatus, progenitor of the cultivated Watermelon, now naturalised all over Australia."
This taxa not found on Inat
Just finished moulting