DRB Report on November Workshop There are over 2000 species of native bees in Australia and at least 800 of them are in Western Australia, yet many people confuse our native bees with the introduced European honeybee (Apis mellifera). However, those attending Dr Terry Houston’s native bee workshop learnt to ...

– at the DRB Nats. Simon Nevill took us on a pictorial adventure tour of the five Western Deserts as his way of bringing nature photography to life at the DRB Nats December meeting. During 2018 he travelled alone for 15,000 km along the tracks of all five deserts: the ...

DRB November Meeting Report This was the first of the DRB’s special talks honouring the DRB elders. Kevn Griffiths, the DRB Co-founder, has presented talks over many years, but this was his debut using digital technology at the wonderful age of (almost) 90. Kevn documented the founding of the DRB, ...

DR Branch October 2018 Meeting Laura Skates, a botanist and final year PhD candidate at UWA, captivated her audience at the DRB in October 2018. She started her talk by exploring popular cultures and the wonder or horror of carnivorous plants. From the Venus fly trap, known all over the ...

DRB September 2018 Excursion Overall more than 100 flowers were identified in two hours, when 26 members and visitors went on a flora walk, beginning from the new subdivision ‘Conti Gardens’ in Walliston, which is west of the Alan Anderson car park (currently closed for renovation.) It was a great ...

DRB September Meeting Report Eric McCrum OAM (below) has presented talks to the DRB Nats and elsewhere for many years, but this was his debut using digital technology—at the age of 84 years, no less! Eric showing the Common Crow butterfly (Euploea core). Rachel Green Eric began by introducing us ...

DARLING RANGE BRANCH JULY MEETING REPORT. Our speaker was Andrew Moore, drone pilot and scientist. As a child, Andrew was obsessed with seeing things from an aerial perspective and was also fascinated with nature. His passion for drones has stemmed from these childhood interests, combined with his father’s involvement with ...

DARLING RANGE BRANCH JULY EXCURSION REPORT. It was a record turnout for the DRB in the Glen Forrest Superblock on 29 July when seventy-nine (yes 79!) attended, including people of all ages and backgrounds. We visited the north-facing slope of the Nyaania Creek which was in full flow on its ...

August Meeting Darling Range Branch What an amazing night this was! No fewer than 107 people—a record for the DRB—turned up to hear Yvonne Sitko of the Western Australian Birds of Prey Centre give a presentation on raptors. This was no ordinary show. We put the data projector away and were ...

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 ...