by admin | Aug 25, 2018 | News
Mention caterpillars and you think about them eating the plants in your garden, right? Yes, some caterpillars do, but these are mostly introduced species. What role do native caterpillars fill? Some, like the one above, are adorable in their own right. All of them...
by admin | Aug 26, 2017 | News
Mention the word parasites and all manner of nasties spring to mind. But we have a few parasites in the bushland that won’t harm us and are part of the natural landscape. Parasitic plants are those that extract some, or all, of the water and nutrients they need...
by admin | Apr 1, 2017 | News
In 2015 we were asked to keep our eyes peeled for Southern Boobooks, Ninox boobook, as Mike Lohr is researching the reasons for their decline. Mike’s study looks at the threats they face including inbreeding, nest hollow loss, the disease toxoplasmosis and poisoning...
by admin | Dec 14, 2016 | News
You may have seen blocks of wood perched in trees as you’ve been walking around our bushland recently. Kit Prendergast is doing a study of native bees and is using bee hotels to help determine what species are in Perth and the southwest. The native bees lay...
by admin | Nov 13, 2016 | News
Grass trees are flowering now and proving very attractive to insects. The flower spike of grass trees is made up of hundreds, if not thousands, individual flowers. Each flower holds nectar and pollen meaning dozens of insects can get a feed at any one time. We have...
