Category Archives: Bushcare

What’s in your garden today?

Posted on 11/11/2019 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Thanks to Georgia Nierfeld for great video of a Bee Hawk Moth Cephonodes kingii in her family’s Pollinator Link® front garden at Chandler. Georgia also found a female Great Carpenter Bee Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) aruana. Australia’s largest solitary bee the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare, Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve, Pollinator Link, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged Bee Hawk Moth Cephonodes kingii, Brush Caper Berry Capparis arborea, Butterfly, Caper White Belenois java, Georgia Nierfeld, Great Carpenter Bee Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) aruana, moth, Native bees | Leave a comment

Habitat for community and wildlife

Posted on 30/04/2019 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Laurie Deacon The Mt Gravatt State High School Pollinator Link® garden is a thriving habitat for wildlife and building links with the community. Twenty-one volunteers from Griffith Mates and local streets joined students and family members. Results: 50 hours … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged Corrine McMillan MP, Griffith Mates, Mt Gravatt State High School SHS | Leave a comment

Building homes for birds and bees

Posted on 17/04/2019 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Kids and mud … always a winning formula. Jake Slinger and I led a Pollinator Link® workshop for the Nature Rangers at Downfall Creek Bushland Centre yesterday. Australia has over 2,000 species of solitary native bees. Solitary bees … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare, Pollinator Link, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged Benchmark Scaffolding, Blue Banded bees, Buzz pollination, Carina Men's Shed, Downfall Creek Bushland Centre, Hollowlog Homes, Photography, solitary native bees, Squirrel Gliders Petaurus norfolcensis, Teddy Bear Amegilla sp | 2 Comments

Fox Gully Wildlife Corridor

Posted on 13/04/2019 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Benno and I spent Thursday morning restoring another section of Fox Gully Wildlife Corridor. Laughing Kookaburras Dacelo novaeguineae love to join us at Bushcare, typically finding a handy perch where they are ready to swoop on … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare, Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve, Pollinator Link, Roly Chapman Reserve Bushcare, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged Bark Cockroach Laxta sp., Common Net-casting Spider Deinopis ravidus, Cr Steve Hung, Klumpp Road, Laughing Kookaburras Dacelo novaeguineae, Legless lizard, Madeira Vine Anredera cordifolia | 2 Comments

Greening Moorooka Pollinator Link

Posted on 17/06/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Today I had the honour of meeting the Greening Moorooka [Bushcare] Group who have been building a Pollinator Link between the western section of Toohey Forest and Moolabin Creek. Today’s event was a community planting in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare, Pollinator Link, small birds, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged #WaterFoodShelter, Greening Moorooka Group, GroNative, Grow Local to Feed Locals, Habitat Brisbane, Habitat Tripod, Mark Bailey MP, Steve Griffith | Leave a comment

Planting Habitat Tripod Crosby Road Bushcare

Posted on 30/05/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox I joined the Crosby Road Bushcare team last Saturday to plant up the Habitat Tripod with vines and shrubs that will create safe habitat for small birds like Fairy Wrens to nest. Vines and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare, Pollinator Link | Tagged Butterfly, Climbing Guinea Flower Hibbertia scandens, Common Grass-blue Zizina labradus, Creeping Boobialla Myoporum parvifolium, Crosby Road Bushcare, Fairy Wrens., Great Carpenter Bees genus Xylocopa, Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus, Habitat Tripod, native bee, Native Sarsaparilla Hardenbergia violacea, Plant Local to Feed Locals | 1 Comment

Plant Local to Feed Locals

Posted on 21/05/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox I just read an interesting article in Canadian Geographic: Inside the mysterious decline of Earth’s insects Why are insects important? If we want to bring beautiful birds like the Variegated Fairy-wren Malurus lamberti back to our urban gardens we need … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare, Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve, Pollinator Link, Wildlife Corridor | Tagged #WaterFoodShelter, Black-headed Skimmer Dragonfly Crocothemis nigrifrons, Insects, Plant Local to Feed Locals, Variegated Fairy-wren Malurus lamberti | 2 Comments

Bushcare nursery thriving in backyard

Posted on 19/02/2018 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Greg Tasney’s passion for the environment and his generosity means that he has propagated more 1,000 plants for use in restoration of his Rocky Waterholes Bushcare site. Walking round garden I was amazed by the diversity of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bushcare, Pollinator Link | Tagged Bush food, Climbing Maidenhair Fern Lygodium microphyllum, Creek Mat-rush, Eastern Water Skinks Eulamprus quoyii, Figbirds Sphecotheres vieilloti, Gardening Australia, Green Mat-rush Lomandra hystrix, Hairpin Banksia Banksia spinulosa, Joseph's Coat Moth Agarista agricola, Kangaroo Vine, Lemon-scented Myrtle Backhousia citriodora, Native Mulberry Pipturus argenteus, Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus, Pipturus argenteus Native Mulberry, Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Vine Pararistolochia praevenosa, Rocky Waterholes Bushcare, Silver Plectranthus Plectranthus argentatus, Small-leaved Lilly Pilly Syzygium luehmannii, Small-leaved Abutilon Abutilon oxycarpum, Speckled Line-blue Catopyrops florinda, Splendid Ochre butterfly Trapezites symmomus, Swamp Banksia Banksia robur, Sweet Morinda Gynochthodes jasminoides (previously: Morinda jasminoides), Syzygium australe Creek Satinash, Varied Eggfly Hypolimnas bolina, Water Vine Cissus antarctica, Yellow Admiral Vanessa itea | Leave a comment

Love butterflies? Host caterpillars!

Posted on 01/01/2016 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox How often have you heard someone say, “We don’t see butterflies in the garden these days.”? Female Orchard Swallowtail Papilio aegeus are laying eggs at the moment so you might find some interesting caterpillars feeding on leaves … Continue reading →

Posted in Bees, Bushcare, Pollinator Link | Tagged caterpillar, chrysalis, Common Gum Tree Shield Bug Poecilometis patruelis, Crow's Ash Flindersia australis, Female Orchard Swallowtail Papilio aegeus, Finger Limes Citrus australasica, osmeterium, Rutaceae | 3 Comments

Pollinator Link at Biodiversity Seminar Series

Posted on 28/06/2015 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox I joined two other speakers at the Brisbane Biodiversity Seminar Series to share our vision of urban wildlife corridors – Pollinator Links. Download PDF copy of presentation My presentation shared the need for and complexity of creating … Continue reading →