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Tim Heard This article is extracted from Tim Heard’s upcoming book on Australian Native Bees Stingless bee keepers in Australia are daily reminded of the intimate relationship between their bees and a eucalypt tree called cadaghi or Corymbia torelliana. From a distance, seedlings of this tree are often seen germinating below the hive entrance. Close […]

Over a period of about ten nights an initial group of about ten bees would cluster together and spend the night on the same flower stem of a Drosera binata. After that period their number dropped off on a daily basis.

During a visit to Western Australia we stayed at the Western Flora Caravan Park which is north of Eneabba. A feature of this park is a not to be missed afternoon nature walk conducted by the owner. A subject discussed by him was the effect of flower colour on pollinators and the effect of pollination

Elsewhere we have noted Brachychiton bidwillii as an attractive and characteristic tree in Bukkulla Conservation Park ( see Cover of Queensland Naturalist 42 4-6 2004). This is a small tree or shrub, often multistemmed from the ground up. It is totally unlike the bottle trees ( B rupestris , B. australe. ) or other Brachychitons

This article focuses on a species of the genus Karualona (Dumont and Silva-Briano 2000) from Dakabin, Queensland. Prior to the research of Dumont and Silva-Briano raising the species Alona karua to generic rank, the genus was only a species group. The only significant work done on the species group of a species native to Queensland,

This photo was taken during the QNC’s October outing to the wader roost at Toorbul, opposite Bribie Island. Waders are never easy to identify – in their non-breeding plumage they lack any bright colours. However with some patience, experience, good fieldguides, the QNC’s recent QUID’s and good views it is quite possible to sort them