Joseph Schubert recently added to the catalogue of the species by revealing seven new finds which are published in an article on the ABC News website. Mr Schubert says, “peacock spiders are like tiny, little, colourful kittens”.
Beautiful Beasts – Spiders that are cute, cuddly and unbelievably beautiful. V5555 Read More »
Joseph Schubert recently added to the catalogue of the species by revealing seven new finds which are published in an article on the ABC News website. Mr Schubert says, “peacock spiders are like tiny, little, colourful kittens”.
Beautiful Beasts – Spiders that are cute, cuddly and unbelievably beautiful. Read More »
October 7th 2022
Today the Yarra spilled over the banks to cover the bike tracks and walking paths, not too much, but enough you could not walk through.
The rain kept falling from the previous week, and it was no surprise the water would rise. But I was a tiny bit surprised to see a good flood, and my prediction the week before, as I stood in the drizzling rain to watch the river, seemed to be confirmed.
When the river runs high – The Yarra River Floods Read More »
Grasses that sprout seeded make all of us itch and sneeze, and amongst the gums that host the banks, little tiny buds appear on the acacia trees; BUT – where is the Wattle?
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My girl is rough barked and red, a thin leafed peppermint gum with two bodies erupting from one trunk. Her hair dangles blue-green; today, her buds are starting to bloom, and soon she will burst into flower.
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On the summit of Mount Gingera in the Brindabella Ranges, Jessica, a young research scientist, stands alongside one of the most influential snow gums on social media; the Mount Gingera Gum.
“Our river doesn’t glint and ripple with crystalised light or dancing sparkles. Our river churns and grinds, rolls, and rumbles as a thick brown liquid – the colour of muddied water in a dried-up damn.”
‘Yarra Yarra’ & The Ironbark Tree. Read More »
Incredibly, the whole world is 100% reliant on bees and pollinators to survive.
These tiny beasts feed the world, and in our farewell, we solute the bee for supporting human life and the plant world for over 100 million years.
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When we think of bees and food, we rarely think of all the other lives at risk of extinction in the bee goes bust.
We are misguided with our attention on saving the honeybee to save ourselves – the honeybee is not the answer to saving the planet. The honeybee is contributing to ecological collapse, global warming, and the death of thousands of native pollinators in Australia and across the world.
The Honeybee Bumble – Part 2 Read More »
We have unwittingly exacerbated the global ecological crisis in what we believe to be a supportive move in protecting agriculture and the environment by installing honeybee hives in our backyards.
The backyard bee hive is not a conservation practice. It is a contributing factor to ecological collapse. The European honeybee is an introduced species in our country, and like the cane toad, it has turned out to be a severe bumble.
The Honeybee Bumble – The Backyard Beehive Must Go. Read More »