Excursion to Mystery Creek Cave, 10 May 2009 |
Descending into Mystery Creek Cave. AmT |
Glow-worm lavae threads. These are silken 'fishing lines' covered with beads of sticky liquid, for catching insects that happen to be flying by. GBM |
In the dark, each glow-worm shows as a speck of blue light. GBM
Close-up, a glow-worm larva is less spectacular. GBM |
Examining a stalagmite. AmT |
Cave spider, Hickmania troglodytes. AbT |
A small spider in the cave. AbT |
Hickmanoxyomma cavaticum, the Cave harvestman. LF |
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Found in wet sclerophyll the forest near the cave, LF |
A beetle found under a rock in the forest. AbT |
Giant springtails. AbT
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Amanita ochrophylloides; though it was nick-named the "golf ball" fungus by the younger members of our group. AmT |
Hygrocybe graminicolor, a glutinous green fungus with white gills. LF |
An interesting collection of old leather boots on the track to Mystery Creek Cave. AmT |
Photos by Amanda Thomson, Lynne Forster, George Brettingham-Moore, Abbey Throssell |