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 ...
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‘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’ ...
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 →Fungi Pocket guide to Mushrooms and other Fungi of South West Western Australia by Sapphire McMullan-Fisher and Katrina Syme, published by the Western Australian Naturalists’ Club. Contains 91 common mushrooms and other fungi from South West WA with images from the region: Kalbarri to Ravensthorpe, including Perth and the south ...
Read more →Invitation to all Young Naturalists Club members New¦ The WA Museum invites YNC members to help us create a banksia mural which will be displayed in an exhibition in the New Museum for WA. Join us for a two-day program during the July school holidays where WA Museum scientists and ...
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, ...
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