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feroxaustralis
Sep 28, 20211 min read
Intervarsity BioBlitz Challenge: 2021 Results
The Intervarsity BioBlitz Challenge is a national BioBlitz event, bringing together universities and environmental groups all over...
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Geoffrey Cox
Apr 20, 20213 min read
City Nature Challenge: Background & First Australian Cities
The City Nature Challenge has been running since 2016 when it was started as a competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco to...
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feroxaustralis
Apr 25, 20201 min read
Day 2 of the CNC 2020 in Adelaide
Today I set out in the morning with Seamus Doherty to do a walk in Belair National Park for a hike and to make some observations before...
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feroxaustralis
Apr 17, 20203 min read
A Night Walk in the Adelaide Hills
Have you ever set a moth trap before? Earlier this month I made a suggestion that the 26th of April should be Australian moth night as...
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feroxaustralis
Apr 16, 20203 min read
Garnering Gold From Gumtrees
There’s gold in them thar gum leaves … yes, under specific circumstances. But knowledge and data is also gold. It’s gold to researchers...
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feroxaustralis
Apr 8, 20204 min read
City Nature Challenge 2020 Media Release
CITIZEN AND COMMUNITY SCIENTISTS ACROSS THE GLOBE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CITY NATURE CHALLENGE, APRIL 24-27, 2020 Fifth annual challenge...
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Seamus D
Apr 6, 20202 min read
Native Bees
While European Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) dominate the urban environment the diversity of native species will surprise you!
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feroxaustralis
Apr 3, 20202 min read
Two for the Price of One
Many people would not think of looking for orchids in autumn, but in the Greater Adelaide region we have three orchid species flowering...
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feroxaustralis
Mar 14, 20202 min read
City Nature Challenge Australia Moth Night
Moth Trap (c) Jackie Beer Lets make April 26th moth night around Australia. With all the drought and fires this summer it has definitely...
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feroxaustralis
Mar 11, 20202 min read
Patience Yields Results
in 2020 Rosalle was at Mylor Conservation Park orchid hunting this was her story. While I walking along the track, lots of butterflies...
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feroxaustralis
Mar 8, 20202 min read
Willunga Environment Centre Inc training session
The City Nature Challenge: Greater Adelaide held our second official public engagement event on the 7th of March at the Willunga...
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Geoffrey Cox
Mar 5, 20202 min read
Most Observable Organisms of Greater Adelaide
The adult Butterflies begin appearing in mid-spring. The sexes are strongly dimorphic.
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feroxaustralis
Mar 1, 20201 min read
The Waite training sessions
The City Nature Challenge: Greater Adelaide held our first official public engagement event on the 26th of February at the Waite campus...
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feroxaustralis
Feb 29, 20201 min read
Describing New Australian Species
If there are an estimated 610,000 species in Australia with 190,000 currently described (31%), how long might it take to have all...
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feroxaustralis
Feb 29, 20202 min read
The Most Observable Organisms of Greater Adelaide
The Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen spp.) © Geoffrey Cox, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/...
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feroxaustralis
Feb 26, 20205 min read
Natural Areas in the Greater Adelaide Region
A long, but hardly exhaustive, list of great natural areas in the Greater Adelaide region below.
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