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Wildlife for each visit
A small area of bushland can support a surprising amount of wildlife! And when we're not there with the camera, there are wallabies, possums, snakes, brush turkeys and many others.
May 2022 Wildlife
Southern Pearl White Elodina angulipennis
Southern Pearl White Elodina angulipennis
Southern Pearl White Elodina angulipennis
Hoverfly Family Syrphidae
Spittle Bug Family Aphrophoridae
Grasshopper
February 2022 Wildlife
November 2021 Wildlife
Brush Turkey mound
Brush Turkey Alectura lathami
Bronze Jumping Spider, Helpis minitabunda
Flea Beetle, Genus Psylliodes
Long-nosed Lycid Beetle, Porrostoma rhipidium
Unidentified bug
Green Lacewing, Dictyochrysa peterseni
Green Lacewing, Norfolius howensis
Leafroller Tachinid Fly, Trigonospila brevifacies
Leech, Haemadipsa sp
A tiny case moth shelter
Amata nigreceps
Southern Pearl White, Elodina angulipennis
March 2021 Wildlife
Brown Ringlet (Hypocysta metirius)
Green Grass-dart - Ocybadistes walkeri
Green Grass-dart - Ocybadistes walkeri
Banks Brown Heteronympha banksii
Banks Brown Heteronympha banksii
Southern Pearl White Elodina angulipennis
Southern Pearl White Elodina angulipennis
A Leaf-curling Spider has caught & eaten a butterfly
Southern Pearl White Elodina angulipennis egg
Hairy-line Blue male (Erysichton lineatus)
Australian Admiral Vanessa itea
Theretra latreillii hawk moth caterpillar
Casemoth
Grapevine Moth (Phalaenoides glycinae)
Torpedo Bug (Siphanta acuta)
Lesters' Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa (Listis))? high up on Parsonsia
Young Magpie
Sac Spider Genus Clubiona
Sac Spider Genus Clubiona
November 2020 Wildlife
Reed Bee (Exoneura sp.)
Reed Bee (Exoneura sp.)
Reed Bee (Exoneura sp.)
Giant Cockroach (Subfamily Perisphaerinae)
Giant Cockroach (Subfamily Perisphaerinae)
Giant Cockroach (Subfamily Perisphaerinae)
Green Grocer Cicada Cyclochila australasiae
Noctuidae moth
Leaf-curling spider Phonognatha graeffei
Peacock Spider (Maratus splendens)
Golden Orb-weaving spider Nephila ornata
Multiple occupancy
Silver orb spider Leucauge dromedaria
Net casting spider Deinopsis ravidus
Echidna
Echidna stops work
Blue-tongue Lizard Tiliqua scincoides
Goanna
Bull Ant
Bees in the possum box
ARCTIIDAE Amata trigonophora Tiger Moth
CRAMBIDAE Musotima nitidalis (Photo Gary Harris)
CRAMBIDAE, Orphanostigma abruptalis query (Photo Gary Harris)
NOCTUIDAE Agarista agricola Joseph's Coat Moth caterpillar
NOCTUIDAE Phalaenoides tristifica Grapevine Moth
NOCTUIDAE Phalaenoides tristifica Grapevine Moth
NOCTUIIDAE Agrotis munda
GEOMETRIDAE Eucyclodes insperata (Photo Gary Harris)
GEOMETRIDAE Epidesmia tryxaria (Photo Gary Harris)
SPHINGIDAE Theretra latreillei Hawk moth larva
SPHINGIDAE Theretra oldenlandiae Hawk Moth larva
Female Katydid (Conocephalus semivittatus)
Brown Ringlet - Hypocysta metirius
Australian Painted Lady Butterfly - Vanessa kershawi
Green Grass-dart - Ocybadistes walkeri
Dingy Grass-Skipper - Toxidia peron (Photo Gary Harris)
Caper White - Belenois java male
Caper White - Belenois java female
Southern Pearl White - Elodina angulipennis - mating
Caper White - Belenois java caterpillar
Caper White - Belenois java pupa
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Varied Dusky Blue
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Glistening (Common) Pencil-blue, Candalides absilimis
This butterfly, the Varied Dusky Blue is attended by ants and its caterpillars feed on the locally growing twining dodder, Cassytha pubescens.
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Lesters' Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa (Listis))
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Lester's Carpenter Bee
Female carpenter bees have a thick tuft of black hair on their hind legs for carrying the pollen back to their nests in burrows inside soft dead timber. They were a gorgeous metallic green-blue and there were several zipping from flower to flower. The males are yellow and black and not nearly so pretty. 
​www.aussiebee.com.au/lestis-bee-dec2012.html

As well as the wildlife pictured a sugar glider popped its head out of a hollow dead tree on one of our weeding days and wallabies visit from time to time.  

Now that foxes have been controlled  in the Council reserve and Garrigal National Park, brush turkeys have returned and wander through the Sanctuary. One built a nest in the back garden of Claire's former house (which her brother and family own now) next door to the Sanctuary.  Lyre birds have also returned.

Since the disappearance of the foxes occasional wallabies also venture into the Sanctuary. 

Evidence can be seen of bandicoot diggings, not to be confused with the rabbit diggings. Warringah Council from time to time endeavour to control the rabbits but haven't yet been successful in eradicating them.

Various snakes slither through the Sanctuary - Carpet pythons, Green tree snakes, Red-bellied black snakes, Whip snakes and rarely a Brown and once a Death adder..  Leaf-tail geckoes live in the house next door and no doubt also occur in the Sanctuary. Besides Blue tongues Eulamprus lizards are occasionally seen    It is also a haven for birds.

At the end of April 2016, it was lovely to see a migration of Caper White butterflies flying north over the Reserve from the south. A few females stopped on a Capparis 
tree that had been planted in the past on the edge of the reserve. Males fluttered around them and, after mating, they laid their eggs on the flower buds on the tree.

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