KRM Branch, 17 April 2023 The April general meeting was a Members’ Night, and three members shared images of recent sightings. First up was Daniel Heald, who presented photos of invertebrates found during the KRMB visit to Lake Mealup in March. These included images of a Weevil, a Parasitic Wasp, ...
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NS Branch 19 April 2023 Our speaker for April was Paul Brown, who fills the voluntary role of Works Co-ordinator for the Friends of Perry Lakes (FOPL). It was surprising to learn that despite the popularity and endearing features of the Perry Lakes Reserve, a friends’ group only existed from ...
Read more →Main Club 5 May 2023 Our speaker was David Knowles, a naturalist well known for his wildlife education service “Spineless Wonders”, which he took into schools across the southwest, teaching about macro-invertebrates for 22 years. Now David is a full-time ecological consultant and conducts biodiversity inventory surveys in nature reserves ...
Read more →Main Club April 2023 Our speaker was Dr Wei Xu, senior lecturer in Entomology at Murdoch University. His main research interests are insects relevant to agriculture and medicine. His PhD research project at the University of California, Davis, was on the olfactory proteins of moths and mosquitoes. He is interested ...
Read more →KRM Branch 26 March 2023 The March field outing was to Lake Mealup, part of the Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar Site 482, just east of the Peel-Harvey Estuary and north of Lake McLarty. A group of 10 members plus two visitors turned up on a fine morning. Peter Wilmott of the Lake ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 22 March 2023 Seven members and five visitors from the nearby Sorrento Surf Life Saving Club began the morning with a walk along the beach on the northern side of the Marmion Angling and Aquatic Club. Don immediately had a captured audience amongst the visitors as he ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch 20 March 2023 Eleven members attended this meeting to hear the speaker, KRMB member, Daniel Heald, deliver a slide presentation entitled Ant-Plant Relationships, Myrmecophytes, Myrmechochory, Mutualisms and Modifications. While many see ants as pests, Daniel explained that many plant species had developed beneficial relationships with ants. ...
Read more →2023 SERVENTY MEMORIAL LECTURE , 5 APRIL 2023 The Serventy Memorial Lecture is held annually in honour of the contribution made to Natural History in Australia and to our Club by the Serventy family. The lecture is the primary source of funding to award prizes to students. The prizes aim ...
Read more →5 March 2023 – CLEAN-UP AUSTRALIA DAY This event was put in place to occur on the same day as Clean-up Australia day as it is a favourite snorkeling and hang-out spot for a lot of people. At 8.00am on Sunday the 5th we expected lovely weather for our visit ...
Read more →20 February 2023 Ten members attended our first meeting for 2023. The speaker was KRMB member Desiree Heald, who presented photographs of flora and fauna taken during a recent trip to New Zealand over Christmas in the mid-January period, during which she visited a number of regions. Her photos showed ...
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