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National Moth Week 16 Jul 2013 | 12:59 pm
Rather propitious considering the blog below! National Moth Week is coming along July 20-28. It's a US invention, of course, (I wonder if Hallmark has cards??) The aims are: National Moth Week’s main...
The Singapore Daisy 15 Jul 2013 | 01:01 pm
I made mention in recent blogs of the Singapore Daisy, Sphagneticola trilobata, not being from Singapore. How it got that name is a bit obscure. Perhaps, a reader will inform us. The plant occurs natu...
Mothfest 2013 15 Jul 2013 | 01:00 pm
Every couple of years a group of individuals, professionals and amateurs, gather at the Australian National Insect collection, Canberra for a weekend of talk and study. This was the 6th confab. There ...
Winter (Dry Season) Ramblings 10 Jul 2013 | 11:07 am
Remember, click on the photos to enlarge! Several trips in recent weeks to a study site south of Cairns, Queensland, near Babinda revealed a small patch of an otherwise extensive area of grassland c....
Living Dangerously 4 Jul 2013 | 08:09 am
We have been visiting Gary Wilson's Nepenthes study site near Babinda, Queensland frequently in recent weeks. There is always something of entomological interest happening there. The site is on the e...
Workshop Notice: Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group 24 Jun 2013 | 07:20 am
Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group Field Workshop Those who take an interest in recording wildlife sounds be they insects, birds, frogs or environmental sounds be informed that the next field...
A Night in the Grass 11 Jun 2013 | 01:34 am
Guinea Grass, Megathyrsus maximus, preferred name Green Panic, is everywhere in the Far North of Australia. it was introduced between 1865-69 at 22 locations by the Acclimatisation Society. Those folk...
An Art Event of Note 8 Jun 2013 | 09:10 am
I recently met Lorraine Lemothe- an artist who uses insects in her work and who has used cockroaches in her artistic renderings. As luck would have it, she is about to have an exhibition. So if you wa...
Monteith's Leaf Insect, Phyllium monteithi Brock and Hasenpusch, in Detail 25 May 2013 | 10:27 am
Monteith's Leaf Insect, Phyllium moneithi Brock and Hasenpusch, has been noted in this blog on several occasions. Females are very rarely found. They seem to be restricted to the rainforest canopy an...
The Time Has Come 14 May 2013 | 12:50 pm
I haven't had much to say about the cassowaries this year. But they have been around since the first noted sighting in late November, 2012. It's remarkable that they and their parents have survived to...
