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17.01.2022 Another guide to BC foraging evidence on marris

17.01.2022 Save the date there’s only 1 MONTH TO GO until the 2021 #AussieBirdCount and we can’t wait! The 2021 event will run from October 1824 during National Bird ...Week. Register as a counter today at: https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/ The Aussie Backyard Bird Count is one of Australia’s biggest citizen science events. This year is our eighth count, and we’re hoping it will be our biggest yet! Join thousands of people around the country in exploring your backyard, local park or favourite outdoor space and help us learn more about the birds that live where people live. Taking part in the Aussie Backyard Bird Count is a great way to connect with the birds in your backyard, no matter where your backyard happens to be. You can count in a suburban garden, a local park, a patch of forest, down by the beach, or the main street of town. To take part, register on the website today, then during the count you can use the web form or the app to submit your counts. Just enter your location and get counting each count takes just 20 minutes! Not only will you be contributing to BirdLife Australia's knowledge of Aussie birds, but there are also some incredible prizes on offer. Head over to the Aussie Backyard Bird Count website to find out more!

11.01.2022 From a gardener friend - spread the word! If you were wondering where christmas beetles went Put the poison spray away now. So, this is a curl grub. At this ...time of year you will find them in your garden near the surface, in the soil. When it grows up, it will become a Christmas beetle. Many other species of scarab beetles also start their life as a curl grub. Around Christmas time, people will start posting comments about how there aren't many Christmas beetles around anymore, and here is why... everyone kills curl grubs!! Every nursery and hardware store sell curl grub killer and at this time of year, it is flying off the shelves... so why? When I did my horticulture course, I was taught that because curl grubs ate the roots of plants, they needed to be killed, hence the poison. I never did use the poison, but I certainly fed hundreds to the chickens and magpies. Many years ago when I realised that the killing of curl grubs was causing a decline in Christmas beetles and other scarab beetles, I stopped feeding them to the chickens. I now treat curl grubs as I do worms, if I dig them up to I tuck them back in. If I am worried about them eating the roots of a certain plant, then I tuck them back in somewhere it doesn't matter so much. Now after years of doing this, my population is increasing, and I have plentiful Christmas beetles in December. So, has this caused the death of plants in my garden?? Not one!!! In fact my garden is healthier. My soil is certainly healthier as it is well aerated and carries a multitude of diverse critters and bugs. In one fork full of soil, I could not count how many different species of bug, spider, leach and worm scuttle for cover. All of these tiny critters have a valuable role to play in keeping soil healthy and balanced. In the event that you do lose a plant to a curl grub chewing it's roots, it isn't the end of the world. At least you have healthy soil. My prediction is that you would lose many more plants to unhealthy barren soil. Please don't kill your grubs and bugs. They may be tiny, but they are precious. See more

04.01.2022 110 years ago, one man set out to rid Texas of Malaria - with the help of what was then a very unlikely source... bats! Dr. Charles A. Campbell had a simple pla...n. He knew that bats eat mosquitoes, and believed that if he could entice thousands of bats to live in Malaria-ridden areas, they would single-wingedly eradicate the disease. After years of fruitless experimentation with small roosting boxes, he decided to go BIG, with a 30-foot tower containing roosting shelves, guano lures, and a meal plan - three large hams! The $500 contraption was, alas, a flop. Campbell realized that he didn’t understand bats enough to provide suitable homes. He spent months studying caves and roosts to learn what bats needed most. In 1911 he constructed a new, improved tower at Mitchell's Lake, where 90% of the locals were sick with Malaria. Within 4 years, Mitchell’s Lake was Malaria-free. Word spread of the bat roost’s success, and 16 "Municipal Bat Roosts" went up from San Antonio to Italy, eradicating the disease wherever they were placed. Dr. Campbell, inventor of the bat house, medical pioneer, unintentional bat scientist, was responsible for saving hundreds of lives from Malaria, and for the subsequent statewide protection of all bats in Texas for over 30 years. He proved that bats could coexist with human beings, and make our lives better because of it. That’s him standing on the bottom rail. That thing is huge! There is still one of his bat houses in my hometown Orange Texas. Located in Shangrila Botanical Garden.