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Worm News – Mother’s Day – clearing drains and saving worms
By: Laurie Deacon We had sixteen workers on Mother’s Day! Pretty good for Mother Earth being Mothered! The team ranged in age from 70 years old to 7 years old! And did they work! 43 hours done in one Sunday … Continue reading
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Tagged Griffith Mates, Living Mulch, Mt Gravatt SHS, worms
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The Water-Less Way of Growing a Garden
By Sandra Tuszynska Most of us find it too time consuming to have a garden. We are used to seeing gardening as something laborious, and which takes time to water and weed. So imagine a garden design where these tasks are … Continue reading
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Tagged water-less garden beds, water-less gardens, wicking beds, wicking garden beds
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Pollinator Link thriving with Griffith Mates help
By: Michael Fox What can a community achieve? Engage some friends and neighbours, involve Griffith Mates students, source donations of mulch and logs from Dale at Climb n Grind, plants for restoration from SOWN, then allow time for nature to work … Continue reading
The Shortest Hike in the World
The Shortest Hike in the World. via The Shortest Hike in the World. A backyard adventure story shared by Jane on Mildly Extreme
Blue Banded Bee visiting Mt Gravatt backyard
By: Michael Fox Jenny sent this excellent video of a local Blue Banded Bee Amegilla cingulata visiting Blue Ginger Dichorisandra thyrsiflora growing in her Mt Gravatt backyard. Jenny said “The shrub comes up out of the ground once a year … Continue reading
Abbeville Community Garden part of Pollinator Link
By: Michael Fox Visiting Abbeville Community Garden and meeting that community was a real pleasure, not to mention the amazing chilli chutney and cheese on offer. Barbara tells me the event was organised to celebrate receiving grant from Brisbane City … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve, Pollinator Link, Wildlife Corridor
Tagged Abbeville Community Garden, Blue Banded Amegilla cingulata, Blue Triangle butterfly Graphium sarpedon, Buzz pollination, European Honey Bees Apis mellifera, Fungus-eating Ladybird Beetle Illeis galbula, native bee, Teddy Bear Amegilla bombiformis
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Living with a Brush-tail Possum
By Sandra Tuszynska I have recently walked into the spare room, to find a brush-tail possum lying on her back, looking like a napping cat. The Latin name of this creature is Trichosurus vulpecula, meaning “little fox” and in Greek meaning “furry tailed”. … Continue reading
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Tagged Brushtail Possum, furry tailed, little fox, Photography, Trichosurus vulpecula
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The Hawkmoth Vision
by Sandra Tuszynska Moths are often overlooked as pollinators, as many are only active by night and perhaps we often don’t find them as attractive as butterflies. However, moths belong to the same order as butterflies called Lepidoptera and are … Continue reading
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Tagged achromatic vision, chromatic vision, Deilephila elpenor, diurnal, Elephant Hawk-moth, Galium Sphinx moth, hawkmoth, hummingbird hawkmoth, hybernation, Hyles gallii, Hyles lineata, Macroglossum stellatarum, night vision, nocturnal, vision, White-striped Sphinx moth
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The Exhilarating Encounter with a Hummingbird Moth
by Sandra Tuszynska Latest update on Hawk Moths in Australia. About two weeks ago I have experienced something out of my ordinary. I was talking to a friend in her garden at around 6 pm, and as we stood by … Continue reading
The Treasure in the Jungle of Weeds
By Sandra Tuszynska The “peanut country”, in south-west QLD has been tremendously dry in the past few years, despite the devastating floods, we’ve had in 2013. However, this summer is very different, in that it has been raining on and … Continue reading
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Tagged alchemist, Banded-orb weaving spider, bees, beetles, Blue-banded bee, cobbler's peg, flowers, rain, rehabilitation, weeds, weevil
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