Posted in Garden on Apr 16th, 2013
In the garden we have a plant of Grevillea maccutcheonii, or McCutcheon’s Grevillea, a plant extremely rare in the wild, found only in a single location near the base of the Whicher Range, south east of Busselton, in Western Australia. Full details of this beautiful plant are found here. It is thriving in a raised [...]
Posted in Garden, General nature., Other creatures on Jan 17th, 2013
….Eupoecila australasiae in fact, the Fiddler Beetle. A phone call took me over the road to our friends’ garden where there were a number of the spectacular beetles on their flowering Corymbia ficifolia, a grafted tree of striking colour. The beetles feed on nectar and pollen and their larvae live in the ground eating rotting [...]
A blog about the natural world of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Birds, insects, wildflowers, and anything else that poses for the camera.