Want summer flowers and beneficial insects? Plant a native ‘Christmas bush’.

Posted at 27 Feb 2023 at 13:32h in News, Invertebrates by Bryan Haywood

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Is your garden in need of some brightening up over the summer months? Do you want to have more butterflies and beneficial insects in your garden? Then why not get to know the native Christmas bush! Christmas bush (also called 'native box' or 'sweet bursaria') has...

Pulyonna Wirra (Wadmore Park) fauna survey update

Posted at 28 Oct 2020 at 11:44h in News, Adelaide Parklands, Frogs, Invertebrates, Reptiles by Bryan Haywood

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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...

Opportune visit to Pulyonna Wirra (Wadmore Park) in July

Posted at 26 Aug 2020 at 15:02h in Adelaide Parklands, Frogs, Invertebrates, News by Bryan Haywood

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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...

Highlights from a fauna survey of Pulyonna Wirra (Wadmore Park), Adelaide

Posted at 29 May 2020 at 16:15h in Adelaide Parklands, Environmental Education, Frogs, Invertebrates, News, Reptiles by Bryan Haywood

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[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...

Has the cross-border Silver Xenica butterfly translocation been a success?

Posted at 30 Apr 2020 at 19:31h in Invertebrates, News by Bryan Haywood

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It is with great enthusiasm that we can provide an update to this long term project! As you will read from our original post we believed the population was in dire need of help. Since the millennium drought of 2006-07 the Silver Xenica butterfly had not...

Are butterflies our local ‘canary in the coal-mine’?

Posted at 20 Feb 2020 at 18:05h in Environmental Education, Invertebrates, News by Bryan Haywood

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Invertebrates (or more specifically insects) are a widely studied group of animals throughout the globe, with more studies than you can 'poke a stick at'. These studies range from understanding more about individual species or populations in a given area through to particular guilds of...

Invertebrates

Want summer flowers and beneficial insects? Plant a native ‘Christmas bush’.

Pulyonna Wirra (Wadmore Park) fauna survey update

Opportune visit to Pulyonna Wirra (Wadmore Park) in July

Highlights from a fauna survey of Pulyonna Wirra (Wadmore Park), Adelaide

Has the cross-border Silver Xenica butterfly translocation been a success?

Are butterflies our local ‘canary in the coal-mine’?

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