2. Plateau Circuit
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Easter Camp in Cradle Mt park, April 2010
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A multi-trunked King Billy pine. GF |
Assassin bug, Psedobargylia sp. AbT |
Velvet worm. AbT |
We paused by the old boatshed at Crater Lake. GF |
Water droplets in a spiderweb on Phebalium montanum beside Crater Lake. AmT |
Persoonia gunnii. GF |
Crater Lake. GF |
An Entiminae weevil. AbT |
A chrysomelid leaf beetle, Palaeomela sp. This species, along with with a few others, has not yet been named. AbT |
Pellet regurgitated by a currawong. GF |
Cushion plant. AmT |
Strawberry pine, Microcachrys tetragona, or possibly Diselma archeri. GF |
The view from a cushion-plant. GF |
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Our attention was caught be a curious wriggling in the short alpine grass. GF |
The source of the wriggling - a wingless moth. This very interesting unnamed species belongs to the genus Pterolocera (family Anthelidae), and in this genus the females are usually wingless. Males are broad-winged and nocturnal with very large comb-like antennae. The larvae are thought to feed mostly on sedges and grasses. GF |
Millipede. AbT |
Eye-to-eye! AmT |
A Tasmanian grasshopper, Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis, in its natural surrounds. GF |
Truganinia bauerae. AbT |
Quoll tracks in the mud on Horse Track. AmT |
Photos by Geoff Fenton, Abbey Throssell, Amanda Thomson |