In early March, Ben and Tessa took to the water to survey submerged aquatic vegetation in Karrawirra Pari/the River Torrens. NGT first undertook this monitoring for the City of Adelaide in 2020, and repeated it in 2022. This year the survey has been expanded to...
If you have passed through the city of Adelaide in recent months, you many have noticed the River Torrens looking a little green. No, it's not blue-green algae, it's actually duckweed (Lemna sp.)! It's not necessarily a bad thing at all, though some users of...
About a month ago (30th September to October 2nd.) a great crowd came out to listen, learn and help with fauna surveys in Pulyonna Wirra (Wadmore Park) in Adelaide's north east. All manner of survey techniques were employed giving rise to an ever increasing fauna...
Opportunistically, I dropped by Wadmore Park in mid-July during a visit to Adelaide from the Limestone Coast. The weather was kind and lately had been mostly sunny, so it struck me as a great chance to see what might be calling within the Fifth Creek...
[caption id="attachment_37002" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The wonderful grassy woodland of Wadmore Park.[/caption] Campbelltown Landcare Group have invited NGT to undertake a fauna survey of Pulyonna Wirra (Wadmore Park) this year. The project aims to collate records on mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates in Wadmore Park, through various...
[caption id="attachment_27352" align="alignright" width="266"] Ancient Greenling Damselfly (Hemiphlebia mirabilis)[/caption] Dragonflies and Damselflies are fascinating creatures. The main difference between the two groups (as outlined in Part I) is the appearance of their wings and whether they can fold their wings when at rest. As adults, they...
In March 2017, Nature Glenelg Trust were engaged by the Adelaide City Council to conduct a fauna survey at the Victoria Park grassland – a two hectare area in the Adelaide Parklands set aside for conservation. This short-term survey was undertaken from 27-30 March 2017....
It has been a pleasure to be involved in a project being run through the Adelaide City Council recently revolving around - would you believe - ‘a little butterfly’. This creature is called the Chequered (or Grassland) Copper and it belongs in the Lycanidae family...
