On Friday evening, we set up three light traps, with one of the lights inside a small mesh pop-up tent and the other two in front of vertical white sheets. Strong winds on Saturday night did not bode well for the sheets, so we gathered all three lights inside the tent to create a brighter beacon. Many moths were drawn in during the night, alongside a few grasshoppers and even a Western Dung Beetle (Onthophagus ferox). Species observed on the traps were much the same across the two nights.
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Main Club July 2023 Two presenters, Chelsea Payne from Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority (BGPA) and Dominic Castledine from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), talked about an important pest currently threatening trees in Perth suburbs. Our president, Basman Al-Jalely, also contributed since that is one of ...
Read more →Karina Knight, our speaker, worked for 36 years at the WA Herbarium and for the last 15 years as Collections Manager and Volunteer Coordinator there. Karina took an interest in myxomycetes (slime moulds) when volunteer Margaret Brims drew them to her attention, and in 2015 began pursuing this as a special interest.
Read more →Main Club 5 May 2023 Our speaker was David Knowles, a naturalist well known for his wildlife education service “Spineless Wonders”, which he took into schools across the southwest, teaching about macro-invertebrates for 22 years. Now David is a full-time ecological consultant and conducts biodiversity inventory surveys in nature reserves ...
Read more →Main Club April 2023 Our speaker was Dr Wei Xu, senior lecturer in Entomology at Murdoch University. His main research interests are insects relevant to agriculture and medicine. His PhD research project at the University of California, Davis, was on the olfactory proteins of moths and mosquitoes. He is interested ...
Read more →5 March 2023 – CLEAN-UP AUSTRALIA DAY This event was put in place to occur on the same day as Clean-up Australia day as it is a favourite snorkeling and hang-out spot for a lot of people. At 8.00am on Sunday the 5th we expected lovely weather for our visit ...
Read more →March 3, 2023 Our speaker was ornithologist and conservation biologist Dr Claire Greenwell, who has a passion for seabirds. Claire has recently completed her PhD on the conservation of Australian Fairy Terns (Sternula neiris neiris) and is the convenor of the WA Fairy Tern Network. Fairy Terns are the smallest ...
Read more →Main Club February 2023 Our speaker was Dr Holly Bradley, an ecologist with a keen interest in conserving and managing threatened species and bringing Western science and traditional knowledge together. Holly has been a DRB Nats’ Club member for many years. For her honours degree, she studied Honey Possums – ...
Read more →Main Club 4 November 2022 Dr Boyd Wykes started his career early, as a child, banding birds. During his studies, he did a PhD on the Helmeted Honeyeater, then had a career as an ornithologist, which brought him to WA. In retirement, he indulged his passion for birds by investigating ...
Read more →The club is supporting Nature Walk Challenge 2023 and would love for you to join us! You can make a donation to Nature Walk Challenge 2023 online, just click on the button for further details. Thanks for all your support!
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