AAWT - Day 7-8 - Orroral Valley Track to Cotter Dam Track

Yellow-winged Locusts everywhere Gastrimargus musicus

Storms in the Valley- High Tor on the Orroral Ridge at left is the Belfry

Orroral River, storms coming in

Morning

Kangaroo Grass Themeda triandra

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria

Leaf Beetle larvae Paropsis sp.

Huntsman on my raincoat

Candlebark trunks standing out in their fiery summer colours Eucalyptus rubida

Lucky enough to see this Gastrimargus musicus drying her new wings- the spent case is on the ground below.

Pale Cup Moth caterpillar Doratifera pinguis

AAWT - Day 6 - Orroral River to Orroral Valley Track

Geebung in flower Persoonia rigida

A looper caterpillar pretending to be a stick

The valley floor

Orroral Tor aka Cathedral Rocks

View from about halfway up the Tor

Groundsel Senecio linearfolius

Lomatia in flower Lomatia myricoides

Purple Loostrife Lythrum salicaria

Native Raspberry Rubus parvifolius

Beetle, maybe Ellopidia genus

Leaf Beetle, this guy could really hang on Paropsis variolosa

Bindweed Convolvulus erubescens

Curved Rice Flower Pimelea curviflora

Twin-flower Knawel Scleranthus biflorus

Hyacinth Orchids - are they Dipodeum roseum because of the recurved petals/sepals

Our progress!

Orroral Homestead

A Bristle Fly Rutilia sp.

Brand new Willow-Herb Day Moth Phalaenoides tristifica

Ant highway

Plenty of history

Tiny Things

Lots of tiny things under the Black Sallees...

Austral Bugloss Ajuga australis

Bidgee Widgee flower Acaena novae-zelandiae

Bush Pea Bossiaea buxifolia

Field Daisy Brachyscome decipiens

Violet Viola betonicifolia

Silky Swainson-Pea perhaps. Terminal leaflet much longer than the others. Tricky genus.

Calyx view... Swainsona sericea

Mountain Beard Heath Acrothamnus hookeri

Matte Pratia Lobelia pendunculata

Moths- Hednota pleniferellus

A leafroller moth Subfurcatana subfurcatana

A female Fallen Bark Looper or Beautiful Leaf Moth Gastrophora henricaria

Black Sallee woodland Eucalyptus stellulata