Camels Hump

Blotched Blue-Tongue Lizard Tiliqua nigrolutea.

Trigger Plant Stylidium graminifolium. Spiky leaves all at the base of the plant.

Blanket Bush Bedfordia aborescens.  The underside of the leaves is like flannelette. Shrub/tree to 6m.

View west from Camels Hump

Fisher Parkland

Kangaroo Grass Themeda triandra

Common Everlasting Chrysocephalum apiculatum.  These everlastings are short plants growing to about 60 cm max with a spreading habit, with grey green leaves.

Detail of the flowers

This guy is a Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae). Sadly lacking in beautiful expensive insect field guides so don't know any more about him.

A really long-legged fly

Bullen Range II

Slender Westringia Westringia eremicolia

Narrow-leaf Bitter Pea Daviesa mimosoides with triangular pods

These guys look like final instar larvae of some kind of leaf-beetle (Chrysomelids). When the camera came close they waved their false-head tails around. The larvae and adult beetles live on the trees but pupate in the soil.

Redeye Cicada

At the Murrumbidgee River at Tharwa today there were plenty of Redeye Cicadas Psaltoda moerens.

Tidbinbilla Sanctuary

Burgan Kunzea ericoides in flower. The leaves and flowers are tiny, smaller than those of surrounding tea trees. Also, stamens are longer than the petals whereas in tea trees they are smaller.

Woolly tea-tree Leptospermum lanigerum, with the flowers nearly finished.  The underside of the flowers are very fuzzy.

 Hop Bush Dodonaea viscosa. There are many subspecies of this plant. This one has long thin leaves.