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Beetle Watch. Biological Control of St John’s Wort.
One of our Landcare members was lucky enough to find themselves hosting a St John’s wort beetle party last week and was kind enough to share some pictures with us. These beetles are a biological control for this weed and can be used in your weed management strategy.
Read MoreOn the Search for Bathursts Earless Dragons
The Earless Dragon we’re discussing (Tympanocryptis mccartneyi) is tiny at around 13cm long, critically endangered and very tricky to spot given its preference for burrowing down with Wolf spiders and hiding out under rocks – not that any of that dented the spirits of the Grassland Earless Dragon Alliance.
Read MoreCitizen Science: Frog Hunting
Frog ID is a citizen science app that’s contributing to our knowledge about Australia’s frogs. We used it to identify these Peron’s tree frogs.
Read MoreSoil’s Alive! Springtails Under the Microscope
2024 has been a year of encouraging our community to get up close and personal with their soil’s macro and microorganisms.
Read MoreA night in the woods watching Squirrel Gliders
Squirrel Gliders need tall old trees both to nest in and glide from. According to research published by the Australian Journay of Zoology in 2009 (1), they glide at an angle of around 28.5 degrees and generally launch from a horizontal position just under 2m from the top of the tree.
Read MoreEugowra Landcare Launch Event
Head on down to Pioneer Park, Eugowra to help the newly formed Eugowra Catchment Landcare celebrate their launch. Join us for a sausage sizzle and an informal talk from Adam Kerezsy (Dr Fish) along with a tune or two by Adam and Nerida Cuddy.
Read MoreCitizen Science Success Stories – Fungi Map & the IUCN’s red list assessments
Those of you who know Mid Lachlan Landcare know that we’re both mycology and citizen science enthusiasts, sharing our passion for both accross many events, including Mycology May & the Great Southern Bioblitz each year. So, when our friends at Fungimap published a link to some interesting reserch that combined these two passions, we just had to give it a closer look…
Read More2024 NSW State of Volunteering -Focus Group Reports. Rural Data Summary
Each year the NSW government publishes an in-depth set of reports analysing the work volunteers do across the state and its value to our ecomony. As a volunteer-based organisation, Landcare groups such as ours compare this big-picture data to that…
Read MoreNative Plant Identification for Landholders in Parkes & Wellington
Native Plant Identification event with botanist Dan Clarke in Parkes and Wellington during October 2024. Hosted by Local Land Services as part of the Threatened Ecological Communities on Farms project funded by the Australian Government Natural Heritage Trust.
Read MoreBioblitz, Citizen Science & the iNaturalist App
This week we participated in The Great Southern Bioblitz, a citizen science driven ecological survey that runs for four days each spring. Citizen Science: the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general…
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