Heathcote - Karloo pool and Return - Nature Walk - 7 December 2015

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Another walk led by Brian Everingham for the National Parks Association from Heathcote to the Karloo Pool and return. Thanks to Bob Crombie, Brian Everingham and Su Li Sin for help with the id's.



Above - Near the start, this Angophora in flower was attracting bees and also some beetles



Above - Brown Flower Beetles - Glycyphana stolata



Above - Spotted Flower Chafer - Neorrhina punctatum



Above - Club moss



Above - Hyacinth Orchid - Dipodium variegatum



Above - Trigger plant



Above - Omphalina umbrellifera



Above - Slender Yellow Eye - Xyris bracteata





Above - Hibbertia sp



Above - Drosera spatulata



Above - Drosera spatulata



Above - Drosera spatulata



Above - Drosera spatulata - Sundew, These carnivorous plants have flowers on a long stem - they don't want to eat their pollinators!



Above - Drosera spatulata



Above - Scribbly gum bark - Eucalyptus sclerophylla



Above - Grevillea sp



Above - A tiny native bee



Above - Baura microphylla?



Above - Angophora costata



Above - Sarsparilla - Smilax glyciphylla. If you chewed up the leaves in your mouth - it produced an interesting effect.....



Above - Hyacinth Orchid - Dipodium variegatum



Above - Hyacinth Orchid - Dipodium variegatum



Above - Hyacinth Orchid - Dipodium variegatum



Above - Harlequin beetle



Above - Bonnet Orchid - Cryptostylus erecta (flower not yet out)



Above - Bonnet Orchid - Cryptostylus erecta (flower not yet out)



Above - Bullant and dead cicada



Above - The ants dragged the cicada back to their nest



Above - Sun orchid - this one has been long fertilised and the flowers are now fruit.



Above - Kangaroo Creek



Above - Tristania nerifolia



Above - Tristania nerifolia



Above - The Karloo Pool. A great spot for a swim.



Above - Drosera spatulata



Above - Drosera spatulata



Above - Fringe lily - Thysanotus tuberosus



Above - Persoonia laurina



Above - Back at the Angophora - lots more Brown Flower Beetle - Glycyphana stolata





Above - Native bee







Above - Spotted Flower Chafer - Neorrhina punctatum

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