Waychinicup Granite and Kingias¦Photo: JoHn We went for a stroll, along the road, towards Tourist Rocks, often stopping, as we spied many interesting plants including Baxter’s Banksia (Banksia baxteri) just finishing flowering and Scarlet Banksia (Banksia coccinea) commencing, showing their brilliant scarlet blooms. The differences in the leaves and the ...
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On a very pleasant morning on June 24 a good turnout of nine members plus three visitors attended a Fungi Walk in Paganoni Reserve, the southern-most reserve in the chain that make up the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park. Good rains throughout June, including heavy falls during the preceding week, meant ...
Read more →GOLLY! The Baigup Wetlands lived up to its name midway through our planned walk! The forecast of up to 30mm of rain deterred most of our regulars but first-time walkers, Terri and Kim Richardson, joined Alex Saar and myself as we started our expedition in fine weather. I was surprised ...
Read more →The DRB’s natural history surveys of the bush block at Arbuthnot St, Kelmscott are continuing to prove popular. On June 23, sixteen of us went to the property for our fifth and next-to-last survey for the season of Makuru – Winter – June-July. We were finding so much we had ...
Read more →As many members may know the Retired & Leisured (R&L) Group had been organised and chaired by Margot Bentley for a number of years. Unfortunately, due to some health issues, Margot has been unable to continue in this role in 2018. In a moment of weakness and with Margot’s assistance ...
Read more →‘small is beautiful’ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ The speaker for June was Otto Mueller. Otto’s presentation ‘Small is beautiful’ was broken into two sub-topics. He started with some photographs and a discussion on Water Striders (Gerridae sp.). As the name suggests, these are aquatic insects that are found on the surface of ponds, ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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’ ...
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