A good result for song meter sites sited within the NP (& beyond boundary of Pullen Pullen Reserve) under the auspices of Bush Heritage and Birds Qld as part of a broader Bird Surveying Expedition to the NP with Andrew Ley. 2- note call confirmed by N Leseberg, (Pullen Pullen Reserve) "one bird flew over that area on the night of 27 Sep, at about 10pm. You had a number of recorders there within a few hundred metres of each other, and the bird was detected on four of the recorders. Based on the times (see data below), it seems to have been moving west. Of the 8 calls detected, all are two-note whistle calls (I have attached a clip of the strongest call) and similar in structure, suggesting the same bird. There was one call of the 8 though that was higher and thinner. This may indicate a second bird, or it could just be the one bird doing something unusual.
So, while it’s not a roost site, it’s still valuable information. It is consistent with what we’ve found before, which seems to suggest birds roosting on the western edge of the escarpment country to the east of where this one was detected, then perhaps moving out onto the floodplains to the west to forage.
I’m sure your crew will be excited to hear the news. It’s not a roost site, and there is no risk of folks disturbing a sensitive area, so happy for you to share this data and the call clip around" 1/5/24
Keeping my fingers crossed I will find more flowering over the next few weeks where there was a burn off several months ago.
It didn't look like Scale more like eruptions busting through the leaf, the contra side was raised but flat
New seed pods beginning to form.
This is really the only gall I see on Acacia pycnantha leaves. Is it a Rust gall?
Spotted last night while out with friends. Wasn’t able to get a picture but considering the recent expansion of their habitat I thought it would be important to report it nonetheless. Found in the Civic Park area. Was a huge bat, probably had a 2ft or so long wingspan.
on Bursaria spinosa
Purple spots variable in size on Acacia sp. leaves caused by most likely a few fungi (photo 1). Rust powdery pustules 1-3mm in diam. found on the leaf underside and along a vein (photos 2-3). Tissue with uredinia can have purple margin and resemble tissue with another facultative parasite (photo 4). Urediniospores and teliospores are present in the same pustule (photo 5). Urediospores (photos 6-7) mainly fusiform and some ellipsoid with protruding papilla at apex that is paler than ochre-coloured wall. Wall is finely verrucous and thick. A short pedicel remains attached to uredispore. At least 4 equatorial pores are present. Size 45-55(-57.5) x 21.3-26.3um; Av. 51.6 x 23um.
Teliospores globose, with one pore (photos 8-9). Wall doesn’t look smooth, it’s thick and ochre-coloured. Size 20-25(-27.5) x 21.3-25(-27.5); Av. 24.6 x 23.4um.
Need to work on morphology of teliospores and check for sterile cells.
Morphology and size of Urediospores but not Teliospores fit description of Uromycladium simplex (Laundon and McCully, 1978).
Especie de briófitas encontradas en salida de observación funga, en sendero del cerro caracol, camino al mirador alemán. Organizada por @concemycetes .
Kestral that had just caught a rat in the garden next to the Airport terminal.
Not sure - fungi or insect
Host plant - Enchylaena tomentosa. It was also infected with Asphondylia tonsura (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202029036)
Growing on an Agapanthus in a suburban back yard.
The 3rd photo is 24 hrs after ther 1st 2 and the next 2 photos are 48 hrs after the 1st two.
See next observation for host Acacia
Sporangiophores with black (mature) and yellow (young) sporangia on Western Grey Kangaroo dung.
Galls on Acacia oxycedrus (Spike Wattle)
About 25 mm long. Matthew, I have emailed you re these.
All grass is mowed, only those growing next to council planted natives can grow a longer culm.
It took some force to separate the lemmas (no sign of fungal infection)
The first lemma has a scar, the second one doesn't.
Olive leaf infestation very mobile ?aracnids 200microns
A smaller fly. 9mm.
Pine Lily Preserve
These galls were observed on stems of Scaevola spinescens. Lateral buds on stems were transformed into thick-walled galls covered with numerous densely-haired, malformed "leaves".
On dissection, a single orange-coloured larva was found in each gall (see last 5 photos).
Mushrooms apx 1 week old, no rain but damp ground. New Moon so dark night 30 sec exposure with f2.8 Nikon D800.
Galls were found on shoots of Maireana brevifolia on 20Aug22. Galls were collected and incubated in a jar and the enclosed pupae and emerged midges were photographed on 7Sep22 and 19Sep22 respectively.
(see also https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/136903073)
Single albino plant.
Sat - white, Sun - grey-black (slim stipes visible at base), Mon - brown releasing spores (mass 19mm H, 14 mm W, 50 cm above ground on dead tree)
This is going to be an epic post. I was at the Buckland native gardens and found a small Eucalypt (The tag, sort of near the base was E. barberi) covered with the most Apiomorpha galls I have ever seen. I've only ever seen one on a tree at a time. This tree had literal masses of male and female galls. I took a lot of photos and brought one female gall home (I have no idea why I didn't think to bring a male). My aim was to try and see some of the crawlers again. Anyway I didn't house the gall well, and it got a bit mouldy. I rehoused it, and everything dried out nicely but I assumes that the female would have died. No crawlers. The female was alive and well, so I took photos today, placed her back in her disected home, and have hoped that a rubber band around the gall will keep her happy!. Very interesting beasts.
This looks like Apiomorpha munita, that I have found before but I have no real clue.
The photos have further annotations here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zosterops/51077449602/
Don’t worry, I didn’t kill this one just to pin them, I found them already passed
Part 1 of 2 series, Target species for identification is the Spider Wasp, the spider is a separate observation, Wild, small Spider Wasp and its prey of Crab spider (Spider paralyzed or near dead) landed on my hane while we were photographing other observations, Adelaide, SA, Australia. photos by Karen Weaving, @Karenweaving and owen Gale, @owen65.
No idea what this is maybe a gall?
H. australis or H. glebosa. I'm not sure if the small bumps on the sepals of photo3 qualify as glebosa. @thammer?
But not a crescent to be seen. But otherwise similar form and stomata to crescent-cup.
Growing on a high ledge. No others around.
last two photos show microscopy
These magnificent images were captured by the camera on a radio-controlled glider being flow by Allen Moore.
The eagle was clearly not happy with intrusion into its air-space but fortunately only inflicted a small tear in the wing fabric of the aircraft.
(With permission).
ID is a guess.. really cool looking organism!
In an LPK hammock
The photo geotag is the laboratory at St Kilda. The sample was collected by a fisherman in the north lagoon of the Coorong.
Old limestone-mine.
Insect galls on cultivated Eucalyptus camaldulensis