KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH REPORT. The KRMB anniversary breakfast was well attended with 15 members meeting at the Rockingham Golf Club on July 22, a cool but otherwise fine morning. It was especially good to catch up with Anne and Otto Mueller again. A hearty breakfast was enjoyed together with a steady ...
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Kings Park fungi researcher Dr Matt Barrett has asked to be contacted if anyone in WA comes across any fresh Stonemaker fungi: Laccocephalum species. Stonemakers are the amazing ‘fire fungi’ that pop up from a sclerotium, a tuber-like hyphal mass sometimes incorporating soil particles, hence the common name ‘stonemaker’. They ...
Read more →Paperback | August 2018 | RRP $ 49.99 | CSIRO Publishing 280 pages | 215 x 148 mm | Colour photographs, illustrations After many years in the making, the long-awaited first definitive guide to Australia’s native bees is here, authored by one of the most erudite of Australia’s native bee ...
Read more →Waychinicup Granite and Kingias¦Photo: JoHn On the first day at Cheyne’s 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 ...
Read more →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 ...
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