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Wild, wilder and really native

Orchid, Lemon Kiss, Spathoglottis sp,

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe For Sale sign was advertising “Native Ground Orchids”. What — there are native ground orchids in a nursery? I thought Australia’s ground orchids could not be propagated? Something about needing mycorrhizal associations…? Mystified, I hit the brakes and careened into the nursery’s driveway to check out this amazing feat. Oh, they meant that kind […]

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Sticks from the sky: photographing Australia’s insect giants

Brown Stick Insect

Reading Time: 3 minutesA stick insect dropped in one day. Not a large one. Probably blown in by the wind, which we’ve been having a bit of last few days. (In fact I’m writing this under “cyclonic” conditions.) I thought everyone knew about stick insects. They look like sticks and they are large. But my quick post on

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Orchid Fly – New to Science?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI ran into some orchid hunters on the weekend and instead of doing what I was “supposed” to do, I played hooky and went out into the fields to play with my new friends. It was well worth the effort (fun?) because we may have stumbled on to something new to science. Orchids are some

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