The final field excursion for the World of Insects project was completed on 30th July 2025, out at Penambol Conservation Park butterfly walk. Here, fifteen NGT and Mt Gambier Area Friends of Parks volunteers and DEW staff came out to assist in planting important larval...
Since the start of the year, some NGT ecologists have been working with Parks Victoria to develop a citizen science program for Woowookarung Regional Park on the eastern edge of Ballarat. The park lies on the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung people and is an...
Our popular six-week World of Insects course is underway! Weeks 1 & 2 commenced in November and Weeks 3 & 4 were completed this month. Over 20 participants have braved the heat, the late nights, and the mosquitoes and flies to become immersed in the...
Earlier this month, I visited the Hutt Bay wetlands for the first time. I joined TAFE SA students from Mt Gambier who are studying Conservation and Ecosystem Management and wanted to learn about different techniques NGT used to monitor wetland health. Lachie demonstrates the water quality...
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...
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...
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...
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...
