Darwin 2011 Wet Season Local Meanderings

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Bagworm Apterona sp.Darwin Grazing
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Bagworm Apterona sp.Darwin Silk & Sand Case
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Billy Goat Plum Terminalia ferdinandiana Darwin
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Braconid Wasp Yelicoes sp.Darwin
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Brown Leafhopper - Alotartessus iambe Darwin
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Brown Quail Coturnix ypsilophora Darwin
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Chestnut-breasted Mannikin Lonchura castaneothorax Darwin
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Clearwing Swallowtail Cressida cressida Mating Darwin
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Clerodendrum floribundum Darwin
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Clerodendrum tatei Darwin
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Brown Faced Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis
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Blue Argus Junonia orithya albicincta Darwin
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Cricket Apterogryllus sp Darwin
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Cricket Salmanites taltantris Darwin
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Ellipsidion humerale Darwin
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Glossy Shield Bug - Cermatulus nasalis 1st instars Darwin
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Glossy Shield Bug - Cermatulus nasalis 1st instars Near Eggs Darwin
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Glossy Shield Bug - Cermatulus nasalis Darwin
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Glossy Shield Bug - Cermatulus nasalis
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Bagworm Apterona sp.Darwin
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Hypolycaena phorbas
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Leaf Flea Beetles Galerucini sp Darwin
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Longicorn Beetle Platyomopsis sp Mating
On Acacia Holosericea Darwin
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Moth Mesolina sp Darwin
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Notodontidae sp Larva Possible Epicoma
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Calytrix exstipulata Darwin
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Passalid Beetle Passalidae sp Darwin
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Pleurocarpaea denticulata Darwin
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Predatory Stink Bug- Asopinae sp Darwin
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Spined Predatory Shield Bug - Oechalia schellenbergii Darwin
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Weevil Myllocerus sp. Darwin
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White spotted Tussock Moth - Orgyia australis Darwin
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White spotted Tussock Moth - Orgyia australis
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Braconid wasp parasites Darwin
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White-throated Honeyeater Melithreptus albogularis Darwin
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Wet Warm Australian Summer

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The rain has set in and regularly cools the afternoons down. The lush vegetation is a myriad of greens and seems to be constantly shrouded in a cool mist. Walking is such a subtle way of moving through enough examples of the most interesting lifestyles to be completely lucky enough to see snapshots of life as it really is. And when those brief snapshots tell a bigger story instead of suggest more questions, what a complex world that we all live in.
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Arboreal Snake-Eyed Skink Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus
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Auchenorrhyncha sp Planthopper nymph
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Chestnut-breasted Mannikin Lonchura castaneothorax
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Ervatamia orientalis
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Ervatamia orientalis
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Glycine tometella
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Green Tree Ant Oecophylla smaragdina
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Grevillea goodii.
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Hibbertia lepidota
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Leichhardt's Grasshopper Petasida ephippigera White
Mating Dec 2010
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Sandstone Pandanus Pandanus basedowii
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Solanum clarkiae
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Stick Case Moth Possible Clania lewinii
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Two-Spined Rainbow Skink Carlia amax
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Eucalyptus pruinose
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Flame Grevillea Grevillea pungens
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Huntsman Isopeda vasta
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Native Bee Homalictus urbanus f
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Eucalyptus pruinosa Flower
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Strychnine Tree Strychnos lucida
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Burdulba Creek / Kakadu Part I / November 2010

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Burdulba Creek has an interesting environment in that you can explore the creek, the floodplain or the plateaus.Chasms and gorges form a network that dissects the rocky platforms on the plateau. The plateau top is a harsh, dry environment where water drains away quickly and top soil is scarce in most areas. Sparse pockets of open forest and woodlands have developed in these areas. However creeks have carved deep gorges in the escarpment in which tall monsoon forests grow. These areas form microclimates for plants and animals and often serve as a refuge during the dry season. Allosyncarpia ternata, a large shady tree found only in the Kakadu and Arnhem Land, is the dominant plant species. During the wet season, water carried down from the Arnhem Land plateau often overflows from creeks and rivers onto nearby floodplains. Alluvial soils carried in the floodwaters add nutrients to the floodplains. Nutrient-rich soils along with an abundance of water and sunlight make the floodplains an area of prolific plant and animal life.
Source: [http://www.thefullwiki.org/Kakadu]
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Glasswing butterfly Acraea andromacha
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Adenia heterophylla
In the stone country
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Acropteris nanula
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Amerila rubripes
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Anisomeles malabarica
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Anthela sp
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Antidesma ghesaembilla
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Antlion Glenoleon radialis
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Arnhem Two-Pored Dragon Diporiphora arnhemica
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Arnhemland Blue Nesolycaena urumelia larva
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Arnhemland Blue Nesolycaena urumelia mating
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Arthrostylis aphylla
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Beauty Leaf Calophyllum inophyllum
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Black Flying Fox Pteropus alecto
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Black Wallaroo Macropus bernadus
Endemic to Arnhem Land
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Blue Triangle Graphium sarpedon
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Blue-winged Kookaburra Dacelo leachii
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Bonamia pannosa
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Breynia cernua
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Brolga Grus rubicundus
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Calogyne pilosa
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Chalcolampra octodecimguttata
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Chamaecrista rotundifolia
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Chocolate Argus Junonia hedonia
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Cicindela sp
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Clerodendrum floribundum
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Common Yellow Robber Fly - Ommatius sp
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