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• Tiphiidae spp. Flower Wasp

  31 Dec 2019 • -37.5,142.4 • Linley McGlashan

  On Xanthorrhoea australis frond

  

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  1. Cathy Powers  Linley - this is a female (flightless) Flower Wasp in the family Tiphiidae. It is difficult to take the identification to anything more specific. Great observation.

     Reply • 11 Jan

  3. Linley McGlashan  Thanks Cathy. That fits with what I thought, but the lack of wings challenged me!

     Reply • 14 Jan
• Helichrysum leucopsideum Satin Everlasting

  14 Dec 2019 • -38.2,141.3 • Kevin Sparrow

  

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• Olearia speciosa Netted Daisy-bush

  14 Dec 2019 • -38.2,141.4 • Kevin Sparrow

  

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• Thysanotus spp. Fringe Lily

  14 Dec 2019 • -38.2,141.4 • Kevin Sparrow

  

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  1. Kevin Sparrow  Anybody have an idea on this one?

     Reply • 27 Dec 2019
• Cullen microcephalum Dusky Scurf-pea

  14 Dec 2019 • -38.2,141.5 • Kevin Sparrow

  Cullen microphyllum leaves are typical;pea shaped

  

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  1. Kevin Sparrow  I mean't Cullen microcephalum

     Reply • 21 Dec 2019
• Cullen microcephalum Dusky Scurf-pea

  14 Dec 2019 • -38.2,141.5 • Kevin Sparrow

  

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  Lawrie Conole and Lorraine Phelan starred this.
• Unidentified

  05 Mar 2019 • -37.6,144.9 • Jeff Triplett

  On trunk of small Grey Box. About 25mm long.

  

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  1. Wendy Moore  maybe Apiomorpha

     Reply • 18 Dec 2019

  2. • Jeff Triplett  I thought so too but none of them seem to have the warts.

       Reply • 20 Dec 2019

  3. Wendy Moore  "Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum. .........." Maybe?

     Reply • 21 Dec 2019

  5. Wendy Moore  https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/212936021 2nd image

     Reply • 21 Dec 2019

  7. Wendy Moore   smooth & textured e.g. apiomorpha ALA gallery

     Reply • 21 Dec 2019

  9. Jeff Triplett  Leuba explained that my Apiomorpha munita obs had male galls growing on female galls. Not sure what you mean by "smooth and textured"

     Reply • 30 Dec 2019
• Unidentified

  17 Dec 2019 • -37.7,144.9 • Jeff Triplett

  Bud gall on mature Yellow Box. Could not find any others.

  

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• Litoria raniformis Growling Grass Frog

  30 Nov 2019 • -37.5,144.8 • Peter Clark

  

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  1. Wendy Moore  Litoria raniformis species id suggested

     Reply • 01 Dec 2019
• Syrphidae spp. Hover Fly

  24 Nov 2019 • -37.9,144.2 • Linley McGlashan

  

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  1. Wendy Moore  it is a Hover/Flower Fly in the Syrphidae

     Reply • 29 Nov 2019

  3. Wendy Moore  on a Prostanthera sp?

     Reply • 29 Nov 2019

  4. • Lawrie Conole  Prostanthera nivea?

       Reply • 12 Dec 2019

     • • Wendy Moore  I think second picture is of another species - Ischiodon scutellaris / Common Hoverfly / Yellow-shouldered Hoverfly

         Reply • 12 Dec 2019

  5. Linley McGlashan  Thanks Wendy.

     Reply • 09 Dec 2019
• Malva weinmanniana Australian Hollyhock

  01 Oct 2017 • -34.8,142.4 • zeke1944

  

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• Malva weinmanniana Australian Hollyhock

  20 Nov 2019 • zeke1944

  No photo or location.

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• Oryctolagus cuniculus European Rabbit

  13 Nov 2019 • -37.5,144.8 • Peter Clark

  

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  1. Peter Clark  1 pix ….hare?

     Reply • 13 Nov 2019

  3. Lawrie Conole  Oryctolagus cuniculus species id suggested

     Reply • 15 Nov 2019
• Artamus superciliosus White-browed Woodswallow

  13 Nov 2019 • -37.5,144.8 • Peter Clark

  

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  1. Peter Clark  1 pix...female?

     Reply • 13 Nov 2019

  2. • Lawrie Conole  Correct!

       Reply • 15 Nov 2019

  3. Lawrie Conole  Artamus superciliosus species id suggested

     Reply • 15 Nov 2019
• Artamus superciliosus White-browed Woodswallow

  13 Nov 2019 • -37.5,144.8 • Peter Clark

  

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  1. Peter Clark  1 pix…..male?

     Reply • 13 Nov 2019

  2. • Lawrie Conole  Correct!

       Reply • 15 Nov 2019

  3. Lawrie Conole  Artamus superciliosus species id suggested

     Reply • 15 Nov 2019
• Lalage sueurii White-winged Triller

  11 Nov 2019 • -37.5,144.8 • Peter Clark

  

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  1. Peter Clark  2 pixs..never seen them before.

     Reply • 11 Nov 2019

  3. Lawrie Conole  Lalage sueurii species id suggested

     Reply • 12 Nov 2019

  5. Andrew Brown  They are moving further south due to the drought

     Reply • 12 Nov 2019

  6. • Lawrie Conole  It's not unusual to see Trillers in southern Victoria, but the numbers fluctuate from year to year, and drier conditions inland will likely result in higher numbers in the south. This spring they were recorded in northern Tasmania, which is either a first or at least a very rare event.

       Reply • 15 Nov 2019
• Unidentified

  27 Oct 2019 • -37.6,144.9 • Jeff Triplett

  Galls on twigs of a grey box. The galls are about 4mm wide on twigs about 1mm wide, and light green underneath. There were several groups like the one shown on the same waist high sapling. The largest group about 100mm across. Most of the stunted leaves attached to the galled twigs had conical galls on the underside, about 1.5mm high (see third photo). These appear to be associated since they do not appear anywhere else on the sapling.

  

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  1. Jeff Triplett  I wonder if there is any point posting gall photos on inaturalist? There is no way of grouping galls together and the only identification I could give for this post would be Insecta or Eucalyptus microcarpa.

     Reply • 16 Nov 2019

  3. Wendy Moore  I think it is a Coccoidea, Eriococcidae see https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/14032552 and https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/15211207

     Reply • 25 Nov 2019

  4. • Jeff Triplett  Thanks Wendy. I personally would not have picked it from the Hardy and Gullan paper since all the photos show individual galls, not joined up like this, with the possible exception of Tanyscelis megagibba but that is a pretty useless photo. I note that the project noah postings are all 7 years old. Knowledge does not seem to have improved much since then since there are no similar photos anywhere on the web under the name Tanyscelis at least. There is a project on inaturalist for australian scale insects, maybe I should post it there.

       Reply • 27 Nov 2019

  5. Jeff Triplett  I now think this is Maskellia globosa (not in database). See p. 119 in Roger Farrow "Insects of SE Australia" (a great little book). See also http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations/16575. I have found another group which is green and 30cm across (also on Grey Box). Original description from scalenet.info: "The female galls are green and red or brown, according to their age, and are formed upon the young twigs, great numbers usually growing side by side, producing an uneven, aborted growth. The apex of each gall is conical, and the orifice small. When formed singly the galls are uneven, globose excrescences, somewhat longer than high. Height, 0.18 inch; width, 0.23 inch. Female chamber-contour pyriform; diameter, 0.08 inch. Adult male, unobserved. Male galls, small, elongated, striated longitudinally, green formed upon leaves; length 0.12 inch. The galls protrude upon the opposite side of the leaf, the orifice being at the base instead at the apex." (Fuller, 1897).

     Reply • 19 Jan

  6. • Wendy Moore  Well done

       Reply • 20 Jan
• Caladenia iridescens Western Bronzehood Orchid

  14 Oct 2019 • -37.5,142.4 • Linley McGlashan

  

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• Castiarina xanthopilosa

  13 Oct 2019 • -37.5,142.4 • Linley McGlashan

  Spotted beetles on Leptospermum myrsinoides.

  

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  1. Wendy Moore  Castiarina xanthopilosa species id suggested

     Reply • 17 Oct 2019

  3. Wendy Moore  Beautiful photo

     Reply • 17 Oct 2019

  5. Linley McGlashan  Thanks Wendy.

     Reply • 17 Oct 2019
• Cicadetta waterhousei Smoky Buzzer

  14 Dec 2010 • -37.6,145.0 • Wendy Moore

  

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• Enchocrates glaucopis

  06 Oct 2019 • -37.9,145.3 • Leuba Ridgway

  A pale moth with purple tinged wings and fringed trailing margins. Wingspan could have been about 10 to 12 mm.Each fore wing had a smudged dark patch in the middle of the inner margin which at rest formed a dark circle. On each wing was also a small dark, slightly posterior to the dark patch. Antennae were swept back. The labial palps appeared to form a "snout" with a short stiff bristle on either side at the tip. Seen under a bright garden light on a warm night.

  

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  1. Wendy Moore  Depressariidae Enchocrates sp. I have trouble IDing to sp. Cathy has similarly marked ones as E glaucopis, however these all have distinct red/pink stripes on outer 1/2 of forewings

     Reply • 09 Oct 2019

  2. • Leuba Ridgway  Wendy, I've had a look at Ken Harris' moth which is similar to mine in every way. He has identified it as E.glaucopis. http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations/101273

       Reply • 09 Oct 2019

     • Leuba Ridgway  Thank you for your suggestion. I wouldn't have got anywhere without your help.

       Reply • 09 Oct 2019
• Craspedia variabilis Variable Billy-buttons

  15 Sep 2019 • -36.3,146.2 • Thomas Nataprawira

  

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  1. zeke1944  Craspedia variabilis species id suggested

     Reply • 30 Sep 2019
• Diuris pardina Leopard Orchid

  15 Sep 2019 • -36.3,146.2 • Thomas Nataprawira

  

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• Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower

  15 Sep 2019 • -36.3,146.2 • Thomas Nataprawira

  

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• Acacia triptera Spur-wing Wattle

  15 Sep 2019 • -36.3,146.2 • Thomas Nataprawira

  

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• Diuris chryseopsis Golden Moths

  15 Sep 2019 • -36.3,146.2 • Thomas Nataprawira

  

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• Cheilanthes spp. Rock Fern Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia Green Rock-fern

  15 Sep 2019 • -36.3,146.2 • Thomas Nataprawira

  

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  1. zeke1944  Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia

     Reply • 30 Sep 2019

  2. • Thomas Nataprawira  Thanks.

       Reply • 30 Sep 2019
• Glossodia major Wax-lip Orchid

  13 Sep 2019 • -36.6,145.9 • Thomas Nataprawira

  Reef Hills State Park.

  

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• Daviesia ulicifolia Gorse Bitter-pea

  13 Sep 2019 • -36.6,145.9 • Thomas Nataprawira

  Reef Hills State Park.

  

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• Diuris pardina Leopard Orchid

  13 Sep 2019 • -36.6,145.9 • Thomas Nataprawira

  Reef Hills State Park.

  

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