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

Pedens Hut

Fields of Bulbine and Vanilla Lilies on the Gulf Plain

Pale Vanilla Lily Arthropodium milleflorum

Bulbine bulbosa

Small-fruit Hakea Hakea microcarpa

Pale Golden Moths Diuris Ochroma

Mauve or Highland Leek Orchid Prasophyllum alpestre

Murrumbidgee and the Gulf Plain

Clustered Everlasting Chrysocephalum semipapposum

Mountain Katydids Acripeza reticulata. The male is the one in the centre, the females are rounder.

Some kind of Grass Caterpillar or Woolly Bear- maybe Pterolocera sp. feeding on a blade of grass

Townsends Hut- the red wash along the top of the grassed area is due to many Triggerplants

Triggerplant Stylidium graminifolium

Johns Peak

Blanket Bush in flower Bedfordia arborescens

Musky Caps Stegostyla moschata

Day-flying Carpet Moths were plentiful Chrysolarentia spp.

Female Mountain Grasshopper Monistria concinna

Mountain Hickory pods Acacia obliquinerva

Snowy Daisy Bush Olearia lirata seed heads

A Bluebell with seven petals Wahlenbergia spp

Shrubby Platysace Platysace lanceolata

Wax Flower fruit Philotheca myoporoides

Bunches of flowers...Diggers Speedwell Derwntia perfoliata and Stellaria Stellaria pungens

Cute unknown Beetle

Johns Peak

Urambi Hills

Views of Bullen and Tidbinbilla Ranges from Urambi

Kurrajong Brachychiton populneus

Fallen seed pods of Kurrajong

A Eucalyptus Tip Bug nymph Amorbus spp.

Female Green form of Yellow-winged Locust Gastrimargus musicus

Not a native, but it was delicious.

Grasshopper Laying Eggs

I nearly stood on this grasshopper who was busy laying her eggs on Round Mountain Trail. She was not going to abandon the task and so let me take many photos.

Mountain Grasshopper Percassa rugifrons

I did see a lot of small holes in the track and now I knew why.  This one has the same reduced wings and black edge on the back leg, but she was a paler grey colour with similar but much less distinct markings.