Author Archives: Mt Gravatt Environment Group

About Mt Gravatt Environment Group

Mt Gravatt Environment Group is restoring a unique piece of Australain native bushland only ten minutes from Brisbane CBD.

Explore Bernadette’s Pollinator Link garden

Posted on 21/01/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Visiting the Pollinator Link garden of Bernadette and Len Crook is like an adventure in a botanic garden. Step through the front gate straight into an urban forest habitat supporting bird, butterflies and bees. The balcony provided … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged Australian Leafwing, Australian Painted Lady Vanessa kershawi, Backyard Bee Home, bees, Bernadette and Len Cook, Birds, Blue Argus, Blue-banded Eggfly, Brazilian Jasmine Dipladenia sanderii, Bush food, Butterflies, Common Crow Euploea core, Common or Varied Eggfly, Danaid Eggfly, Golden Everlasting Daisy Xerochrysum bracteatum, Lemon-scented Myrtle Backhousia citriodora, Love Flower Pseuderanthemum variable, Midgen Berry Austromyrtus dulcis, Native Geranium Geranium solanderi, Pink-flowered Doughwood Melicope elleryana, Rainbow Lorikeets Trichoglossus haematodus, Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Vine Pararistolochia praevenosa, Silver Wattle Acacia podalyriifolia, Wattle Notodontid Moth Neola semiaurata | Leave a comment

Exploring Marie’s Pollinator Link Garden

Posted on 14/01/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Explore Marie Hollingworth’s garden with me. Marie’s garden is part of the Corinda Creeks link creating mosaic habitat in Oxley Creek Catchment. Entering Marie’s Pollinator Link garden is an adventure in discovery: lizards, butterflies, moths, bees, … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link, small birds | Tagged Blue Banded Bees Amegilla cingulata, Blueberry Lily Dianella longifolia, Cabbage White Pieris rapa, Climbing Guinea Flower Hibbertia scandens, Companion Planting - Sustainable Gardening Australia (SGA), Cycad Blue Theclinesthes onycha, Easter Cassia Senna pendula., Edge Senna Senna acclinis, Love Flower Pseuderanthemum variable, Mango Planthoppers Colgaroides acuminata, Metallic Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa (Lestis) bombylans, Monarch or Wanderer Danaus plexippus, Nasturtiums Tropaeolum majus, Orchard Swallowtail Papilio aegeus, Sweet Basil Ocimum sp, Verge garden, White Banded Noctuid Moth Donuca rubropicta | Leave a comment

Exploring Jen Bartlett’s Pollinator Link garden

Posted on 08/01/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Explore Jen Bartlett’s Pollinator Link garden. Jen’s garden in Salisbury is part of the Stable Swamp Creek link creating mosaic in suburban Brisbane. Black She-oak Allocasuarina littoralis are planted for gentle sound created when wind blows through the striated … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link | Tagged Black She-oak Allocasuarina littoralis, Dome Tent Spider Cyrtophora moluccensis, Dune Fan Flower Scaevola aemula, Granny's Cloak Moth, Jen Bartlett, Leaf Cutter Bees Megachile sp, Living Mulch, Native Ginger Alpinia caerulea, Native Sarsaparilla Hardenbergia violacea, Stable Swamp Creek, Wattle Notodontid Moth, Zig-zag Wattle Acacia macradenia | 3 Comments

Planning Brisbane’s future – Intergenerational Forum

Posted on 23/11/2017 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox I joined approximately one hundred other Brisbane community members of all ages yesterday, to discuss the future of our city. Hosted by Brisbane City Council the Forum is an interesting and genuine effort to understand how our … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link | Tagged Brisbane City Council (BCC), Dr Katherine Loflin, Globalisation and Competition: The New World of Cities, greenspace, Intergenerational Forum, James Tuma Urbis, Kirsty Kelly Consulting, New World City, Power of Place, Prof Greg Clark | 2 Comments

What’s in your garden?

Posted on 20/11/2017 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Blue Triangle Graphium sarpedon butterfly Puddling in neighbour’s sandpit. Butterflies, like all animals, need water. At breeding time, male Blue Triangle butterflies and other swallowtail butterflies will be looking for mineral laden water. Blue Triangle butterfly caterpillars feed … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link | Tagged Blue Triangle butterfly Graphium sarpedon, Bronze Flat Netrocoryne repanda repanda, Common Red-eye or Eastern Dusk-flat Chaetocneme beata, Murrogun Laurel Cryptocarya microneura, Puddling Place | Leave a comment

CWCN Pollinator Festival

Posted on 20/11/2017 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox The Pollinator Link® display was very popular at the Cubberla-Witton Catchments Network Pollinator Festival with a regular stream of visitors wanting to learn about gardens for birds, butterflies and bees, and claim a free pollinator plant donated by … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link | Tagged Backyard Bee Home, bee hotel, Cubberla-Witton Catchments Network CWCN, Giant Panda Snail Hedleyella falconeri, Native Plants Queensland, Paten Park Native Nursery, Pollinator Festival, SGAP | Leave a comment

Blue Banded Bees visiting?

Posted on 07/11/2017 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Do you have blue flowers in your garden? Have a look to see if you have Blue Banded Bee Amegilla cingulata visitors. I videoed this visitor on Scurvy Weed (Native Wandering Jew) Commelina diffusa flowers this morning.

Posted in Photography, Pollinator Link, Wildlife of Mt Gravatt Reserve | Tagged Blue Banded Bee - Amegilla cingulata, Scurvy Weed (Native Wandering Jew) Commelina diffusa | Leave a comment

Water for backyard wildlife. Echidnas?

Posted on 19/08/2017 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Water, Food and Shelter for wildlife are the key to bringing a bit of Australian bush to our city gardens. Some suprising wildlife is still surviving in Brisbane suburbs. What wildlife is benefiting from your Pollinator Link … Continue reading →

Posted in Wildlife Corridor | Tagged Short Beaked Echidnas Tachyglossus aculeatus | 6 Comments

Nature’s pest control services are free

Posted on 17/08/2017 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox I recently found this striking Black and White Ichneumon Wasp Anacis sp. in Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve. Parasitic wasps are one of nature’s valuable pest controllers attacking caterpillars that eat your vegetables. “Their larvae are either parasitic or hyperparasitic … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged lack and White Ichneumon Wasp Anacis sp., plant local natives, wildlife | Leave a comment

Birds visiting your garden?

Posted on 15/08/2017 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

Originally posted on valwebb.com:
While doing a little laptop housekeeping this morning, I found a link to a forgotten video. It’s a taped segment from a two-day live workshop, Essential Birds and Flowers in Watercolor, hosted a couple of…

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment