Heathcote - Karloo pool and Return - Nature Walk - 7 December
2015
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without permission.
Another walk led by Brian Everingham for the National Parks
Association from Heathcote to the Karloo Pool and return. Thanks to
Bob Crombie, Brian Everingham and Su Li Sin for help with the id's.
Above - Near the start, this Angophora in flower was attracting bees
and also some beetles
Above - Brown Flower Beetles - Glycyphana stolata
Above - Spotted Flower Chafer - Neorrhina punctatum
Above - Club moss
Above - Hyacinth Orchid - Dipodium variegatum
Above - Trigger plant
Above - Omphalina umbrellifera
Above - Slender Yellow Eye - Xyris bracteata
Above - Hibbertia sp
Above - Drosera spatulata
Above - Drosera spatulata
Above - Drosera spatulata
Above - Drosera spatulata - Sundew, These carnivorous plants
have flowers on a long stem - they don't want to eat their
pollinators!
Above - Drosera spatulata
Above - Scribbly gum bark - Eucalyptus sclerophylla
Above - Grevillea sp
Above - A tiny native bee
Above - Baura microphylla?
Above - Angophora costata
Above - Sarsparilla - Smilax glyciphylla. If you chewed up
the leaves in your mouth - it produced an interesting effect.....
Above - Hyacinth Orchid - Dipodium variegatum
Above - Hyacinth Orchid - Dipodium variegatum
Above - Hyacinth Orchid - Dipodium variegatum
Above - Harlequin beetle
Above - Bonnet Orchid - Cryptostylus erecta (flower not yet
out)
Above - Bonnet Orchid - Cryptostylus erecta (flower not yet
out)
Above - Bullant and dead cicada
Above - The ants dragged the cicada back to their nest
Above - Sun orchid - this one has been long fertilised and the
flowers are now fruit.
Above - Kangaroo Creek
Above - Tristania nerifolia
Above - Tristania nerifolia
Above - The Karloo Pool. A great spot for a swim.
Above - Drosera spatulata
Above - Drosera spatulata
Above - Fringe lily - Thysanotus tuberosus
Above - Persoonia laurina
Above - Back at the Angophora - lots more Brown Flower Beetle - Glycyphana
stolata
Above - Native bee
Above - Spotted Flower Chafer - Neorrhina punctatum
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