Tag Archives: bees

Register your Pollinator Link garden: Free

Posted on 14/07/2021 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

Pollinator Link® is a non-profit initiative of Mt Gravatt Environment Group. The Pollinator Link® project aims to bring wildlife back to our urban by providing Water, Food and Shelter for birds, butterflies and bees. Your free garden registration will support … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link | Tagged #WaterFoodShelter, bees, Birds, Butterfly, Free registration | Leave a comment

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

Pollinator Link – influencing community to help wildlife

Posted on 14/07/2016 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN REPOSTED FROM Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee Pollinator Link’s Mike Fox says pollinator network success has a lot to do with “influencing”. Mike was a guest speaker at our Sustainability Centre Open Day on Saturday. “Bees … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bees, Birds, Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee, Butterflies, Community, flying foxes, habitat, Laurie Deacon, Michael Fox, Mt Gravatt High School, Pollinator Link garden, Pollinatorlink, water, wildlife | Leave a comment

Pollinator Link at The Planting Woodfordia

Posted on 21/03/2016 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox I will be sharing the Pollinator Link™ vision at The Planting Festival – Woodfordia – 29 April to 1 May It is called The Planting and it is held at Woodfordia the Woodford Folk Festival site. At … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link, Uncategorized | Tagged bees, Birds, Butterfly, Helen Schwencke, pollination, Sandra Tuszynska, The Planting Woodfordia | Leave a comment

The Goods Line: a Pollinator Link through Sydney city

Posted on 29/09/2015 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Cities can surprise us. Who would expect to find a two kilometer long park of wildflowers two stories above New York streets? The High Line creates a wildlife corridor through high rise city buildings linking people with … Continue reading →

Posted in Pollinator Link | Tagged Alan Moore photography, bees, Birds, Butterfly, Chau Chak Wing building, High Line New York, Sydney, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, The Goods Line, university campus, UTS Business School, Wildlife corridor | Leave a comment

The Treasure in the Jungle of Weeds

Posted on 04/02/2015 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

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 →

Posted in Bees, Pollinator Link, Uncategorized | Tagged alchemist, Banded-orb weaving spider, bees, beetles, Blue-banded bee, cobbler's peg, flowers, rain, rehabilitation, weeds, weevil | 1 Comment

THE INGENUITY OF THE BEE DANCE

Posted on 28/01/2015 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By Sandra Tuszynska Bees have different roles in the hive and one of those roles is that of a scout. Scouts search for new sources of food. Once a scout bee locates a source of food that is economically and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bees | Tagged bee dance, bees, choreography, communication, geometry, Karl von Frisch, Nobel Prize, recruitment dance, solar compass, waggle dance | 3 Comments

Pollinator Link at Mt Gravatt Library

Posted on 20/10/2012 by Mt Gravatt Environment Group

By: Michael Fox Pollinator Links: wildlife corridors for urban spaces, was launched in September at our local Mt Gravatt Library. As part of the launch butterflies and birds was the theme for the regular Children’s storytime. Mt Gravatt Environment Group … Continue reading →