A good source of ideas for anyone wanting to increase #biodiversity and encourage native wildlife into their garden 🦋🐝🦘🦎🦜

One of the first #orchid s of the season to flower in #WesternAustralia , the Leafless Orchid (Praecoxanthus aphyllus). As its name suggests, flowering plants of this species have no leaf #orchid #biodiversity #ozflora #ozplants

Most south west orchids go dormant over summer but #Cryptostylis ovata is a species that can be found still in leaf as well as flowering over the summer period with these tall sequentially flowering inflorescences! On top of that they are also sexually deceptive! #Orchids

A 22° halo around the sun this morning in the #PerthHills indicating ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.

If only this would translate into some much needed rain 🌧️ #PerthWeather #drought

This is heartbreaking 💔

Dozens of Pilot Whales stranded on a beach near #Dunsborough #whales abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

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Going through some macro shots of #insects and came across this shot of an Australian Brown Antlion (Myrmeleon acer).

Its eyes are totally mesmerising #biodiversity #WildOz #macro #PerthHills

I grew up next to Whistlepipe Gully in Perth hills, Western Australia. Today I went to look at trees I’d walked under with my grandma when I was little, that I was looking forward to showing my baby, and they’re dead 😢 Experts are warning of “forest collapse” across southern WA

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Anger as a 'great browning' spreads along the length of the Southwest Australia Biodiversity Hotspot
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Running Down - climate transition in Margaret River. New blog on the Earth Sea Star website: earthseastar.com/2024/04/15/run…
#climatechange #MargaretRiverRegion #WesternAustralia

The forests of south west #WesternAustralia are stricken by drought and the onset of a drying climate. Here, a karri at the very northern end of species range heralds a retreat, although they have nowhere to go 😭
#Climatechange

An interest in #orchid s is a family affair for our family.

This photo of a Clown Orchid (Caladenia roei) was taken last year by my 12 year old and he's entering into a local photography competition this weekend. #orchid #biodiversity #ozflora #ozplants

The current record dry spell in #WesternAustralia is putting the environment under immense pressure with fears of a second forest collapse and loss of our incredible #biodiversity abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

2/4/24 Rhodes - The incredible Mirror #Orchid (Ophrys speculum) is a master of deception, enticing naive male wasps (Dasyscolia ciliata) to visit its flowers by mimicking the appearance and form of the wings of female wasps

The spectacular appearance of this orchid's mirror is…

I can't believe I never posted this!

Two plants of this very unusual sun orchid were found December last year, but no one has been able to figure out what it is. Presumably some weird mutant, although it's interesting that only the column seems to have been effected

New Holland Honeyeater - Australian National Botanic Gardens this afternoon

Not the best photo, but this gorgeous Quenda (Isoodon fusciventer), or western brown bandicoot, was thoroughly enjoying itself digging around the in the leaf litter today #biodiversity #wildoz #PerthHills