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A Closer Look at the Bugs in Our Backyards. A Citizen Science Project

A new Citizen Science project led by the Invastive Species Council & Invertebrates Australia launched on iNaturalist this year. Bugs in My Backyard Week ran from 17 – 23 November 2025 creating the first springtime snapshot of bugs across Australia. I joined the project as an individual this year to get a feel for the nuances and challenges around recording bug life.

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Bioblitz 2025 – Surveying Cowra

The ‘Great Southern BioBlitz‘, or ‘GSB’ for short, is an international period of intense biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within several designated areas across the Southern Hemisphere in Spring. We had a lovely &…

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Citizen 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…

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Bioblitz, 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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