Photographing Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) can be a challenge at the best of times. Your best chance at seeing a range of species is in and around wetlands, and while you wade gently through the shallows, gripping your fancy camera as you try to sneak...
Now you see it… This little Marbled Gecko (Christinus marmoratus) was found during monitoring of a roofing-tile grid in the Wimmera area. If you get close to one, you can pick it apart from most other geckos in the region by the large pads on the...
Ewens Ponds is a true underwater garden and one of the aquatic highlights of South East SA. This karst rising-spring system pushes incredibly clear water through a linked chain of three sinkholes, before joining Eight Mile Creek to terminate at the ocean about 2km south. The...
Isn’t camouflage amazing? While some species were born to be stars and will pull out all the stops to stand out (we’re looking at you, rainbow bee-eaters), others seek to blend in, trying to living out their days in relative peace. This bark moth (probably Scioglyptis...
Like many of the plant species remaining on the Victorian Volcanic Plain, the endangered Basalt Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum viretrum) is threatened by clearance, fragmentation and degradation of habitat. Despite this, it's hanging in at a handful of grassland sites near Warrnambool and can be seen flowering en...
This photo of a young Black-headed Monitor (Varanus tristis) was taken while volunteering on a recent fauna survey up in Arnhem Land, NT. Black-headed Monitors grow to a length of 50 to 80cm, making them relatively small by monitor standards. While they may be on the petite...
If you’re out and about in damp woodlands this time of year, you may run into a mysterious structure on the ground that looks a bit like a gherkin standing straight up in the leaf litter. Another of the many strange cousins in the fungi...
At the beginning of March, a hardy bunch of NGT staff loaded the utes with trapping equipment, spades and picks, eskies and unheard of quantities of oats and peanut butter (for bait, of course!) and made our way up to the Wimmera to conduct a...
Steve Bourne snapped this long-neck turtle emerging from its slumber as Bool Lagoon awakes, receiving flows from Mosquito Creek once again. Great photo Steve - and thanks for sharing it with us! [caption id="attachment_15596" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Long-neck turtle at Bool Lagoon[/caption]...
[caption id="attachment_15374" align="alignright" width="300"] Swamp daisy (Alittia cardiocarpa) at Mortlake Common[/caption] If you’ve spent any time on the highways recently, you may have been happy to notice that many of the wetlands that have been dry over the past couple of years have been receiving good...
