The Wee Wonders of Nature

 Crickets

Adult crickets spend their days in shallow burrows beneath a stone, clod of dirt or a tuft of plant. They are most active during the night, and that is when males begin their nightly serenading to attract female mates.More......

Australian Native Bees

	Australian native bees can be black, yellow, red, metallic green or even black with blue polka dots! They can be fat and furry, or sleek and shiny.More......

Australian Spiders

Spiders (class Arachnida) are eight-legged creatures belonging to a group (phylum) called Arthropoda that are different from insects (class Hexapoda) on several easy to see characteristics. They have no antennae, their eyes are like ours and not segmented, and they have four pairs of legs.More....

 Snail Farming

Free-range snail farming is an easily managed, cost effective method of breeding and growing snails that are healthy for consumers ― and, it respects the physiological needs of the snails and the environment in which they grow.More....

 Australian Beetles 

This is by far the largest order in Australia and the rest of the world. There are over 28,000 species in this country and they come in all shapes and sizes and can be found everywhere.more....

Caterpillars

Links to images, and descriptions of biology, behaviour,and life histories of  2,514Australian Lepidoptera species including673with Caterpillar pictures. More....

Centipedes

Centipedes are easily recognisable but despite their name few actually posses 100 legs or more. They may be confused with millipedes.More...

Walking the Sunshine Coast

A walk on North Shore yesterday and a Walk around Buderim Lake the day before. Nature leading the way.

Nature Close Ups Flowers and Dragonflies

Dragonflies

One of Nature’s most intriguing and fascinating insects, and the subject of mankind’s most sublime and ridiculous myths and mythologies, the dragonfly darts around going about its business as usual, blissfully unaware and oblivious to the interest it has generated in us.More....

 Waterlillies

These waterlilies hold their blooms up well above the water. They tend to be very free flowering.

The only Blue and Purple flowering waterlillies are tropicals, but those are not the only colours tropical waterlilies are available in as there are also pink, white and yellow flowering tropicals more....

Flowers Reproduction

Flowers are the reproductive structures of plants. Most flowers are hermaphrodite, this means that they have both male and female parts. The male parts are called stamens and it is in the anthers of the stamens that the pollen is made. The female parts of the flower are called carpels and it is in the carpels that the eggs (ovules) are made.More....

 

Australian Flowers

Australia is home to flowering plants from many families, and the major ones are listed here.More...

Pollination Syndrome

However, flowers come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and so do insects. So how do different flowers attract the right insect for the job? The answer is that flowers vary their features to appeal to their target visitors. When flowers have adapted to attract certain pollinators, they are said to have developed ‘pollination syndromes’. Let’s take at look at them here.

Butterflies

All About Butterflies is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about butterflies. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic, and then to progress to much more advanced information as desired, simply by clicking on links more.....