Main Club, 4 July 2025 Kelly Sheldrick shares fascinating discoveries from her ongoing research into WA’s microbat communities. Kelly Sheldrick’s recent presentation on Southwest bat research opened many eyes to the remarkable diversity and conservation challenges facing our local microbat populations. Speaking to our naturalist group in July, Sheldrick outlined ...
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NSB June Meeting: Highlights of the 2025 Notley Late Easter Camp Members Gia Clarke, Arlene Quinn, Sylvia Tetlow and Don Poynton illustrated their personal highlights from the 2025 Notley Late Easter Camp which featured the Wellington Forest and Collie area. The fifteen members who attended stayed in Wellington Forest Cottages, ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 22 June 2025 The KRMB field outing for June was to Sullivan Rock. After a wet week that lasted well into Saturday, it was great to see 13 members turn up for the walk on an overcast Sunday morning with some rain clouds threatening to provide ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 25 June 2025 Golly, it was cold this morning! A comment was made by everyone arriving at Donelly Park, Wanneroo, the meeting point for our walk around the northeast corner of Lake Joondalup, part of Yellagonga Regional Park. The temperature in Perth when most people left home ...
Read more →DRB Nats, 11 July 2025 “BoorYul-Bar-Bilya”, in the Noongar language, means, more or less, “magic river”, a concept that includes the beauty, peace, tranquillity, and life of a pristine river. In a lively presentation to the members of the DRB, Francesca Flynn described the work of the BoorYul-Bar-Bilya programme, which ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 19 May 2025 KRMB member Daniel Heald was the speaker for the May general meeting. He delivered a talk on Insects and Medicine, as outlined in the following summary provided by Daniel. Insects in Medicine The use of insects as medical treatments goes back to before ...
Read more →Biotic Interactions – The Essence of Nature Conservation 16 April 2025 There was a good turnout for this year’s Serventy Memorial Lecture (SML), including many non-members. Don Poynton began by talking about the WA Naturalists’ Club, its origins in 1924 with the Serventy family, our branches, our major projects and ...
Read more →Main Club, 6 June 2025 The enthusiasm of our speaker, Thilo Krueger, demonstrated how botany can be an intriguing and exciting subject, one that we can all become involved in through Citizen Science. Thilo is in the final year of his PhD at Curtin University. His photos of sundews exemplified ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 21 May 2025 Jeremy Wilson is the newly appointed Curator of Arachnids and Myriapods at the WA Museum. Jeremy started his presentation by showing a slide of the three groups in the order Araneae. The suborder Opisthothelae comprises two families: the Araneomorphae, which have more advanced spinnerets, ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 25 May 2025 Initially planned for a walk at Lake Claremont, a late change saw us visit the Alcoa Wellard Wetlands instead due to advice that Lake Claremont was almost dry with few wetland birds present. A group of nine members attended the walk on an ...
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