Wedgetail Reserve, Parkerville

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Survey results – Wedgetail Reserve Parkerville – Sunday 25th August 2019, 10am-12.15pm.

Darling Range Branch of the WA Naturalists’ Club. Compiled by Drew Wallace.

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What

Common name

Scientific name

Number

Where

What they were doing

 

Meat ants
  • Iridomyrmex purpureus
  • x 3 colonies
  • x 3 workers
  • Colonies- grassy patches/ gravel driveway
  • Workers- flowering wattle
  • Colonies- defending nest
  • Workers- feeding on nectar
 

Green headed ant
  • Rhytidoponera metallica
  • x 3 workers
  • ground
  • foraging
 

Big headed ant
  • Pheidole Sp.
  • x 1 colony (only majors seen)
  • Under rock
  • Defending nest
 
 
  • Unknown Sp.
  • x 3 colonies
  • xx2 drones
  • x 1 queen
  • under rock
  • defending nest
 

Black house ant

Iridomyrmex bicknelli
  • x 4 colonies
  • x 3 drones
  • under rock
  • under log
  • defending nest
 

Bull ants
  • Mymecia vindex
  • x 3 colonies
  • open areas
  • under boulder
  • defending nest
 

Sugar ants
  • Camponotus nigriceps
  • x 1 worker
  • open grass
  • foraging
 

Sugar ant
  • unknown Camponotus sp.
  • x 1 colony
  • under rock
  • defending nest
 

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ANTS

Click beetle
  • unknown sp.
  • x 2

Under rock

 

Assassin bug
  • unknown sp.
  • x 1

Under rock

 

Click beetle larvae
  • unknown sp.
  • x 3

Under rotting log

 

Katydid nymph 1
  • unknown sp.
  • x 1

Under rock

 

Katydid nymph 2
  • unknown sp.
  • x 2

On leaf litter

 

midges

 
  • x 20~

Flying

 

Termites
  • Nasutitermes
  • x 5 colonies

Under rotting logs and rocks

 

Robber fly.
  • unknown Sp
  • x 1

Resting on bushes

 

Small beetles
  • unknown sp.
  • x 10~

In Acacia denticulosa flowers

 

Scarab beetles
  • family Scarabaeidae
  • x 12

Under log

 

Carnivorous beetle
  • carabidae
  • x 9

Under rocks

 

Native millipede 1
  • unknown sp.
  • x 24

Under rocks/ logs

 

Yellow lady bird
  • Coccinellidae
  • x 1

flying

 

European honey bee
  • Apis mellifera
  • x unknown
  

Unknown caterpillar
  • unknown sp.
  • x 1

Under rock

 

Unknown spider
  • unknown sp.
  • x 1

On rock (in web)

 

Unknown Crab spider 1
  • unknown sp.
  • x 1

Mimicking flowers

 

Unknown crab spider 1
  • unknown sp.
  • x 1

On grass

 

Quacking frog/
  • Crinia georgiana
  • x 2

Water body

Vertebrate

Motorbike frog tadpoles
  • Litoria moorei
  • x 5

Water body

Vertebrate

Stripe tailed centipede
  • unknown sp.
  • x 4

Under rocks

 

Worker ants fighting termites
  • Iridomyrmex bicknelli fighting Nasutitermes
  • x 1 colony of ants
  • x 1 colony of termites

In rotting log

 

Unknown fly
  • unknown sp.
  • x 1

flying

 

Unknown case made of sticks and dead insect parts
  • unknown sp.
  • x 1

In Calothamnus bush

 

Ear wig male
  • unknown sp.
  • x 1

Under rock

 

Skink/
  • unknown sp.
  • x 4

Logs and rocks

Vertebrate

Survey results – Wedgetail Reserve Parkerville – Sunday 25th August 2019, 10am-12.15pm cont’d

Darling Range Branch of the WA Naturalists’ Club. Compiled by Drew Wallace.

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