Since the changes brought about by the cooling of the Indian Ocean and the warming of the Pacific Ocean the weather has returned to a more familiar dry season “cool days and colder nights”. Because of the fast cold snap a month ago, most vegetation has dried out quickly and most birds have dispersed due of the tremendous amount of surface water still available from the two year La Nina rains. Basically it seems very quite compared to the recent high humidity and high monthly rainfall we have experienced each and every month.
For the first time in two years the ground seems brown instead of green yet most water ways are still flowing. I guess the birds need to spread out along the permanent water ways to earn a living as insects become harder to locate or take advantage of the grain still on the blades but mostly fallen to ground. The life cycles seem more normal at places where there is always spring fed water, but even there a lack of grasshoppers is very evident.
Acacia sp. Resin Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests
Anthela nicothoe Feeding On Acacia humifusa Sandstone Country
Bee Fly Ligyra septentrions Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Blowfly Stomorhina sp. Feeding on Carallia brachiata CloseUp Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests
Blowfly Stomorhina sp. Feeding on Carallia brachiata Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests
Blue Skimmer Orthetrum caledonicum Female Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Bluebottle - Chrysomya rufifacies Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests
Boerhavia sp.Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Boralba Creek Cascade Falls Basin Sandstone Country
Boralba Creek Cascade Falls Sandstone Country
Brown Leafhopper - Alotartessus iambe nymph Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Brown Leafhopper - Alotartessus iambe nymph Jumping Spider Mimicry Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Buchnera linearis R.Br. Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests
Calytrix megaphylla Sandstone Country
Chasmina candida Adult Moth Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Chasmina candida Cocoon Between Leaves Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Chasmina candida Larvae Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Colobathristid Bug Phaenacantha australiae Feeding On Pandanus spiralis CloseUp Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Colobathristid Bug Phaenacantha australiae Feeding On Pandanus spiralis Kambolgie Creek Sandstone Country
Cyanthillium cinereum Point Stuart Evergreen Vine-forests
Dicliptera arnhemica Sandstone Country
Drywood Termite Possible TERMITIDAE sp. Upper Motor Car Falls Sandstone Country
Eucalyptus blesseri Resin Motor Car Creek Open Woodland Sandstone Country
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