AAWT - Day 13 - Pockets Hut to Bill Jones Hut

 New Years Day at Pockets Hut 

Chamomile Sunray Rhodanthe anthemoides

Gold coloured Leaf Beetles mating Cadmus litigiosus

Blue Eyes Lacewing Nymphes mermeleonoides

Hatted Caterpillars and younger instars of Gum Leaf Skeletonisers Uraba lugens

The hats are retained skins from previous molts. On Black Sallee E. stellulata

Alpine Daisy Bush Olearia algida

Dwarf Sour Bush Choretrum pauciflorum

Snow Gum forest between Seventeen Flat and Pockets Hut

Swarm of Honeybees on the move, protecting their queen Apis mellifera

On E. Stellulata

Seventeen Flat

Cooleman Plain

Brachiopod and other fossils in the plains limestone

Fields of blue Flax Linum marginale

Dragonfly

Caterpillar- tons of this species, mostly on weeds

Bill Jones Hut

Limestone and dry creek beds around Blue Waterholes

AAWT - Day 11-12 -Murrays Gap to Pockets Hut

At Murrays Gap- Triggerplants Styliduim sp.  As they are growing in bog at high altitude, they could be Alpine Triggerplant Stylidium montana, but I did not investigate the leaves.

Fairy Aprons Utrichularia dichotoma

Swamp Eyebright Euphrasia caudata

Sweet Onion Orchid  Microtis oblonga.  The labellum is very long, against the ovary, and flowers well spaced.

Heading down from the gap, Blanket Bush Bedfordia arborescens is emerging from burnt areas

Swathes of white Stellaria under black trunks looks like snow

Damp gullies of  red snow grass Poa sp

Flax and close up of the red Poa

Scrofa Hawkmoth Hippotion scrofa

Looking back to Bimberi

Yam Daisy

Oldfields Hut

My Accom

A lone cherry at Oldfields (plenty of cherry slugs though)

Christmas dinner

Copper Wire Daisy Podolepis sp.

Sticky Everlasting Ozothamnus thyrsoideus

pea

Heading along the edge of the plain

Pockets Hut and views from the plains

 

Views over Tantangara Dam in the evening

Cicadas!

Redeye Cicadas Psaltoda moerens- in profusion on 8th Dec2020.

On Cork Oaks and various other trees at the Lindsay Pryor Arboretum.

This one has recently emerged- still drying its wings

Holes where the pupae emerged from the ground.

A Common Onion Orchid Microtis unifolia- labellum is crinkly.

Growing from mulch placed around new trees.