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What’s around – mid September 2012
The biggest event in the garden in the last month has been the flowering of our poplar gum, plus the paperbark, macadamia and bottlebrush. All attracted their quota of nectar-feeders – birds and flying...
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What’s around – mid January 2013
Temperatures have continued to edge up, but only a degree or two, to 33-34 in the daytime after an overnight ‘low’ (quotation marks for the benefit of those who don’t live in the tropics!) of 24-26C....
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Caterpillar season
Our Wet season is the ideal time for caterpillars since that is when their food plants are growing best, so it makes sense that the Wet is also peak butterfly mating and egg-laying time. In the last...
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The Four o’Clock Moth, Dysphania numana, is a rare but welcome visitor to our suburban garden. This one was feeding happily on the flowers of our Mock Orange yesterday, probably having blown in (quite...
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