Black Mountain 2020

Black Mountain 14/11/20

Fringe Lilies, large and numerous this year Thysanotus tuberosus

Woolly Pointed Everlasting Coronidium oxylepis

Lydia Lichen Moth Asura lydia

The signs are old but good

Chocolate Lily Arthropodium fimbriatum

Yellow Rush Lily Tricoryne elatior

Tall Lobelia Lobelia gibbosa

Prickly Starwort Stellaria pungens

Australian Admiral Vanessa itea

Black Mountain Tower

Aranda 2020

 Wax Lips Glossodia major

Lemon Caps Caladenia cucullata

Musky Caps Caladenia moschata

Tiger Orchid Diuris sulphurea

Going with  Black Mountain Leopard Orchid Diuris nigromontana

And again

And even this yellow one

The most Fringe Lilies I have seen ever Thysanotus tuberosus

And the Guinea Flowers were the largest I've seen Hibbertia obtusifolia

Bush Pea Pultenaea procumbens

Mountain Grevillea Grevillea alpina

Gungahlin Hill 2020

Dry Scribbly Gum forest Eucalyptus rossii

Early Wattle Acacia genistifolia

  

Hardenbergia violaceae 

Waxlip Glossodia major

 

Sticky Everlasting Daisy Xerochrysum viscosum

Bulbine Lily Bulbine bulbosa. Leaves slightly scabrid at base, anthers basifixed.

Cymbonotus sp.

A native plantain, maybe Slender Plantain Plantago debilis

Creeping Bossiaea Bossiaea prostrata

Pink Fingers Petalochilus carneus

March 2020

These first pictures were taken at Wee Jasper, NSW.  In a small window of time between the bushfires and the Coronavirus, a camping trip was enjoyed.

Crane Fly on a Willow



Tiny Jumping Spider



Possibly Hypoblemum scutulatum



A Pie Dish Beetle. Tenebrionidae family (Darkling Beetles)



A Water-skink  Eulamprus sp. sunning at the door of his little cave-house at the base of a Casuarina



Dragonfly nymph cases on the same tree



Confluence of Micalong Creek and the Goodradigbee River



Dont have an Id for this guy yet




The rest of the pictures are from Canberra and the parks/reserves within the ACT, where we are now confined, but thankfully still able to go urban exploring...

Rainbow Darkling Beetle Chalcopteroides sp.



Black Geometrid Melanodes anthracitaria



Amethyst Imperial Blue Jalmenus icilius.  Unfortunately, no photo of the top of this butterfly, which flashed blue like polished labradorite.



Common Brown, a male  Heteronympha merope



Shingleback skin Tiliqua rugosa



Mistletoe flowers Amyema sp.



This is my favourite