Kit Prendergast’s great talk underlined the evolution of the bee and the mutual relationship (win-win) that drove the diversification of the most successful plant group (Angiosperms: flowering plants) over the past 125 million years. Kit is a PhD student at Curtin University where her study involves looking at European Honeybee ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
Our speaker Dr Nicole Willers gained her PhD studying Rock Wallabies and is an ecologist with the Parks and Wildlife Service (DBCA). She has worked for Parks and Wildlife since 2000 and has also worked for the United Nations Environment Program in Geneva, Switzerland. She has a strong interest in ...
Read more →Geoscientist Michael Freeman delivered a fascinating lecture on the story of the bedrock and the overlying regolith of our existence (that is, for those who live in the hills). The Darling Range region is an old, complicated landscape, which in places is not fully understood or agreed upon and the ...
Read more →The WA Naturalists’ Club has been successful in an application to Lotterywest for a two-year fungal project ‘Improving local knowledge of Amanita mushrooms in Western Australia’. The total amount of the grant is $20 000, with $15 000 coming from Lotterywest and the remaining $5 000 from the WA Naturalists’ ...
Read more →Dr Laurton McGurk, Chemical Safety Officer at University of Western Australia and enthusiastic mycophile, took us on a rollicking romp around the UWA campus to look for mushrooms and other fungi. This was the subject of the Main Branch’s June talk. Her inspiration was the general, often voiced opinion that ...
Read more →Young Naturalists, All Branches We were very fortunate to have Daniel Boase-Jelinek, the Convenor of the Friends of Shenton Bushland, to take adult members and Young Nats through this area on Sunday, May 20. This bushland is a Protected Class A Conservation Reserve and was first listed 25 years ago, ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch A resident of Wagin, Jean McGregor, whose property backs onto Wagin Lake, contacted KRMB to see if we would be interested in visiting Wagin Lake while we were down at Dryandra. Jean was eager to gain greater recognition for the lake and support for local community ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch A good turn-out of 12 members plus one visitor attended KRMB’s May 19-21 weekend trip to Dryandra Woodland, with a staggered arrival at the Lions Village, where we had two large cottages booked for two nights. For those of us who arrived early on Saturday there ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch Lake Goollelal is the southernmost water body of a chain of lakes and swamps that make up the wetlands in the Yellagonga Regional Park. It is surrounded by remnants of fringing paperbark woodland, Jarrah-Marri-Banksia open woodland and scattered Tuart. The lake, although shallow by world standards, is ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch Kulin, in the Eastern Wheatbelt, approximately 280 km from Perth, was home to twenty-four eager DRB Naturalists and visitors over the June Western Australia Day long weekend. The rich flora and fauna in the region had us entranced. We started on Friday with bird walks and ...
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