| Type | Date | Description | Person/Presenter | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp | 25/1/2019 | Australia Day camp Cullendore High Country | Murray & Jeanette Watson | Our camp for the Australia Day long weekend will be to Cullendore High Country. This is a private 4000 acre working cattle property with 2000 acres set aside for camping and exploring. The property adjoins Maryland National Park and is within the Great Dividing Range half an hour from Warwick. We will be exploring various areas of the property and also visiting the National Park. There are lots of wallabies, wallaroos, kangaroos, plenty of birdlife and maybe a glimpse of the spotted tail quoll. |
| Meeting | 18/2/2019 | Annual General Meeting | Neil Fordyce |
Presidential
Address
- “Rare and
Vulnerable
Species of the
Northern
Tablelands, NSW” An introduction to the threatened species of the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales. |
| Excursion |
Friday 22/02/2019 16:00-20:00 May change! |
Samford Ecological Research Facility | Matt Philipps & Barney Hines |
The Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF) is situated on a property that was bequeathed from Elizabeth ‘Pat’ Marks’ estate. Pat was a past president of the QNC and very active member. Long standing members may recall visiting Pat’s property in the early 1980’s for QNC breakups. The outing will involve a walk around the property, followed by a supper and hopefully some moth trapping. Bring a picnic meal. Lots of information is found on the SERF website, including articles from the QNC: http://www.serf.qut.edu.au/ The club’s last outing to the site occurred in 1993 and is described here: http://www.serf.qut.edu.au/serfresourcefiles/nature_notes_excursion_qnc_1993.pdf |
| Meeting | 18/3/2019 | Australia’s dragonflies and damselflies and Dennis Reeves’ contribution to their study | Chris Burwell | The Odonata, comprising dragonflies and damselflies, is one of the best known groups of Australian insects in terms of their taxonomy. The vast majority of Australia’s species have been described and formally named. There are probably few completely new species awaiting discovery, but molecular techniques may well reveal hidden diversity within existing ‘species’. This is certainly not to say that there is little to learn about them; there are ample opportunities to better document their distributions and biologies. The late Dennis Reeves, a long standing member of the Queensland Naturalists, was a passionate odonatologist and amassed a huge collection of dragonflies and damselflies over many decades. This collection, numbering more than 6000 specimens, was donated to the Queensland Museum by Dennis and Joan Bryan in 2012, more than doubling the museums holdings. I will give a brief overview of Australia’s dragonflies and damselflies and will delve into Dennis’ contribution to their study. |
| Excursion | 24/3/2019 | Gold Creek Resevoir | Chris Burwell - Senior Curator of Entomology, Qld Museum |
Following
on from his talk
earlier in the
week (Monday
18th March),
Chris Burwell
will lead an
outing to Gold
Creek Reservoir,
at the end of
Gold Creek Road,
Brookfield, in
search of
dragonflies and
damselflies. The
reservoir itself
has a diverse
fauna of species
that breed in
standing waters
and Gold Creek,
which snakes
through riparian
rainforest below
the dam wall,
features many
species
dependant on
flowing water.
Come and try
your hand at
capturing these
aerial predators
with hand nets,
although we are
unlikely to be
collecting
specimens. There
should also be
plenty of
opportunities
for photography.
Binoculars are
also strongly
recommended,
which can also
be used for
birding; almost
200 bird species
have been
recorded from
the reservoir
and surrounds. Meet at the carpark at the very end of Gold Creek Road at 9:00am. |