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25.01.2022 Awabakal Wildflowers 20190706

23.01.2022 FREE TALK! ALL WELCOME!! Plants Sale!! Come to the Australian Plants Society-Newcastle Group - meeting Wed 7pm 5th Feb 2020 at Hunter Wetlands! All welcome! Hear Fern Creek Gully Landcare Group talk about the Squirrel Gliders in Glenrock and Awabakal Nature Reserve!

21.01.2022 An important analysis of climate changes likely effect on inland rivers.

21.01.2022 Print off this list of Awabakal Wildflowers and look for them out in flower now!

19.01.2022 See updated Flyer, Plant list, directions, etc. There are 4 defined walks (see attached for details). We are taking groups of 15-20 every half hour to the Dudley Bluff walks starting at 10am. The last group will leave at 11.30pm and expect to be only half hour - to finish by 12midday. There will be 2 groups of 15 only going on the long walks along the narrow loop trail to the Redhead walk. Also one group of 20 going to the Lagoon and Wetland Walk. These long ones will leave at 10am and return by 12. So, have a look through the list of defined walks and decide which one you would like to take. You then go to the meeting point at the picnic table within the Reserve to register. Also, you can leave any time you like. No need to book again. Just come along.

18.01.2022 Here is another great weeding video. Cant wait for social isolation to end!

17.01.2022 We had a lovely walk today in Awabakal Nature Reserve. Saw so many interesting and beautiful things! Including a Cup Moth Caterpillar! See attached pics - with its spines out in the 2nd photo. Info about this fascinating Moth here: https://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_loo/MottledCup.htm Also saw a large group of Greenhood Orchids out in flower!

13.01.2022 A very big THANK YOU to all the wonderful and knowledgeable Guides who so generously gave their time showing us some treasures in our local Bushland! What wonderful Bushland we have!

11.01.2022 Lovely Outing to see the Coastal Heathland wildflowers at Awabakal Nature Reserve today! Also saw Redhead native garden (see before-April 2018, and after pics-July 2019).

11.01.2022 20180825 wildflowers etc

10.01.2022 This is really worth watching.

10.01.2022 Hi everyone. We are not planning on holding the big Annual Wildflower Walk at this stage in 2020. However, I (Maree McCarthy of Nature's Magic Gardens) am happy to give you and friends (a limit of 20 people total) a guided walk if you like? All I ask is a small donation for my time, or something to share from your garden . I can do walks to the Bluff, to the Wetlands, and/or to through the heathlands. The 'Spring' wildflowers are already starting! Look out for the gorgeous Philotheca silsalifolia, Banksias, and Hardenbergias!! Maybe even the elusive and rare pink Hardenbergia like I photographed one year....

09.01.2022 Today was my first experience seeing Awabakal Nature Reserve, south of Newcastle (NSW) ..with the great company of fellow Banksia Lover, Andrew Marsh ..also sha...ring his knowledge on Eucalypts.. Together we checked out the obvious differences between the closely-related Banksia aemula and Banksia serrata populations that co-exist in this area. We also found B oblongifolia, B integrifolia, B spinulosa var spinulosa and B spinulosa var collina in the Reserve. All photos are labelled See more

09.01.2022 Butterfly found in Awabakal Nature Reserve today: Common Brown Ringlet The eggs are pale green in colours laid on grasses. Their caterpillars are green or brown with dark lines along the body, with two small horns on head and tail. They feed on common grasses and sedges, including Poaceae (Imperata).

07.01.2022 Plants you might notice Errors and omissions forgiven please!

07.01.2022 Free Guided Walk: Learn about bush foods, medicines, wildflowers, ecologies, etc. Several guides with various expertise taking walks on 15th Sept between 10 and 12midday. Also see this file for some bush food notes: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au//GUIDE_Koori-Bush-Tuc

06.01.2022 Free! Talk tonight! -Save Our Species (SOS) program talk on native Orchids. Presented by researcher Antony Von Chrismar. Hunter Hwca Wetlands Centre, 7pm tonight 2nd October, Australian Plants Society-Newcastle Group meeting. All welcome! Also Plant sale 7-7.30pm - mostly tube stock grown by volunteers - lots of variety of great natives! Finish around 9.30pm.

03.01.2022 NATIVE PLANT LOVERS WE NEED YOUR HELP IN A CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT!!!! Not all moths are nocturnal, brown and dusty and send shivers down the spine. As the ph...oto of an undescribed moth on Boronia coerulescens from Kalbarri NP in WA (credit Andy Young) shows, some are beautiful, metallic and dance in the sun. We are a passionate group of amateur entomologists and over the last ten years of family holidays, weekends and extended highly-focused field trips have discovered that one family of tiny moths, called Heliozelidae (aka Sun-Loving Moths), is unexpectedly and incredibly diverse in Australia think tiny insect equivalents of lemurs in Madagascar or Birds of Paradise in Papua New Guinea. We have found that almost every Australian species of the citrus family (Rutaceae) we have looked at, from the top of Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, to the desert around Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and to the tropical north of Kakadu in the Northern Territory, are associated with one, two and sometimes more species of Sun-loving Moths. The biology of many Sun-loving Moths is inextricably linked to the biology of the citrus plants. Female moths lay their eggs into flowers, and when they hatch, caterpillars eat the developing seeds. Because the caterpillars are only able to eat seeds of one species of plant their survival is absolutely dependent on the plant’s survival. In some cases, the relationship is even more intimate, with not just the plant providing the caterpillars’ food, but also the female moth contributing to pollinating the plant’s flowers. In a few cases the moths are the plant’s only pollinator. Conservation of moths and plants are therefore inextricably inter-twined, and this becomes incredibly important when plants are range-restricted or endangered as many are. To date we have only looked at the tip of the iceberg. Despite only examining about 50 of the nearly 500 Australian citrus species, in genera like Boronia, Phebalium, Eriostemon and Zieria, we have discovered over one hundred new species of moths and are in the process of describing and naming them. We would like to look at every single species of Rutaceae and identify moths with which they are associated and we are in a hurry because an increasing number of these plants are endangered (e.g. Boronia clavata in WA and Boronia granitica in NSW/QLD) and their Sun-loving Moths may go extinct before they are even known. The only way to do this is with your help, and a great first step is by photographing moths on Rutaceae plants. Even without trying, new species of moths have been discovered and photographed incidentally by plant lovers who have posted their beautiful photos on social media platforms like Instagram. We can’t wait for chance sightings we need a more deliberate and concerted effort. Anyone who has species of Rutaceae growing in their local area, we would like to enlist you in our project. First, please search for these plants! Then please look carefully at their flowers (from the time they are unopened buds through to after they drop seed) and if you see a moth, please, please, please take a photograph, if possible, note the GPS co-ordinates and let us know. If you can also provide details like the time of day and the date the photo was taken, a plant I.D. and stage of flowering all the better. In fact, even if you don’t hit the jackpot and find moths, photos and locations of plants are also valuable! We can then follow up your discoveries and search for them on our next field trip in that area. And if you don’t find a moth on your first look don’t give up! In many cases moths may be present only for a few days or a week in a year and only on a few plants among a whole patch of similar plants and that’s why a few people can never cover the whole country. That’s why we need people in every state and in every region. That’s why we need you! Post your photos on your own Instagram Account and please include us @sun.loving.moths in your post and please use the hashtags #sunlovingmoths #australiancitrus #rutaceae #heliozelidae We will repost pictures (with credit of course) so everyone can share in the discovery. Or Share your photos on your own Facebook Account but please remember to tag us too Sun Loving Moths. Or Email us your photos at [email protected] The current Sun Loving Moth Gang are: Doug Hilton, Axel Kallies, Andy Young, Mike Halsey, Liz Milla, Wendy Grimm, Mally Walter and Don Sands with lots and lots of generous help from many other people.

01.01.2022 If you would like to get a glimpse of how challenging and how amazing our scientist are have a read of this: https://www.abc.net.au//antarctica-climate-change/12110980 Watch it on: https://www.abc.net.au/foreign/atom-hunters/12110288

01.01.2022 FREE talk on local flora tomorrow night at Shortland - Hunter Wetlands Centre 7pm. All welcome. You don't need to be a member to come along. PLANT SALES ($4ea) before the meeting -plants grown by the volunteers from Australian Plants Society - Newcastle Group.

01.01.2022 Pterostylis curta - photographed 13/8/19 in Awabakal Nature Reserve