Report of Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch 15th March 2021 The March meeting was a Member’s Night. The audience received presentations from three members. Chris Punter showed a number of photographs from a camping trip he made through the South-west. The trip took in Dryandra Woodlands, the Stirling Ranges, and Fitzgerald ...
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Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 24th March 2021 Golly, I didn’t know the beach at Mettams Pool was so badly eroded! Our walk had started at Hamersley Pool and as we headed south along the beach, scattered bamboo stakes* at the foot of the dunes indicated how much damage had been caused ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 17 March 2021 Dr Glenn Moore is Curator of Fishes at the Western Australian Museum and has been studying the biology of the Western Australian Seahorse for more than 20 years. His primary interest is in the evolution, reproduction, behaviour, mate choice and movements of the species. ...
Read more →The Serventy Memorial Lecture is held every year in honour of the contribution made by the Serventy family to Natural History in Australia and to our Club. The lecture raises funds to encourage young people to study natural history. Before the talk, our new president, Shashi Sharma, talked about the ...
Read more →Main Club 9thApril 2021 Our speaker, Dr Mathew Hourston, describes himself as a marine scientist, photographer, communicator and citizen scientist. He has applied the skills that he developed in the study of marine ecology to the study of these amazing little spiders and their colourful courtship displays, which he does ...
Read more →21 February 2021 The first KRMB outing for the year was to Point Peron, Rockingham. A small group of nine attendees gathered at the car park on a beautiful morning. We commenced our walk along the track on the northern side of the reserve with views out to Garden Island. ...
Read more →– Daniel Heald 15 February 2021 Falling on the day after Valentine’s Day, it was apt that KRMB’s first meeting of the year should have a presentation on Insect Courtship and Reproductive Biology delivered by Daniel Heald. Daniel’s PowerPoint presentation outlined the intricacies of both courtship and reproduction in the ...
Read more →Mark Harvey, Curator of Arachnids, WAM 17 February 2021 Before telling us about spiders Mark began his presentation with some interesting facts about other local creepy crawlies. We learnt: Centipedes have only one pair of legs per body segment while millipedes have two pairs. A new species of millipede has ...
Read more →5 March 2021 Having learnt about the long-necked Oblong Turtle at our November meeting, we were privileged to hear from an expert on another local freshwater chelonian, the critically endangered short-necked Western Swamp Tortoise. That species is special to our Club: Since the 1850s it was thought to be extinct, ...
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