This Spider Wasp dragged a Wolf Spider for 55 metres to stash it in her nesting burrow.

Juvenile birds can have odd colors, stripes or weird bits, totally different to the adults, just to make things tricky.

A bird which eats, sleeps, drinks, mates and bathes on the wing and has a strange affinity with radar-shielding fluff.

In the Mallee, it is essential to water the trees and shrubs we plant, to make sure the revegetation survives the tough first summer. This is Phil's clever watering set-up to make it just a little easier.

We are trialing cocoon planters to increase the survival and growth rate of our tube-stock for revegetation. January update.

Sandhill Wattle is a major component of our revegetation program. But it is also a bit of a rock star with many unique characters.

Is the colonising flight of thousands of termites a good or a bad thing?

The Poached Egg Daisies were spectacular in Spring 2020, but they’ve finished now and the white fluff is everywhere.

These colorful birds migrate to the southern states in Spring and Summer.

Our collection of Mallee wildflowers is now live.

This rare, slow-growing wattle is long-lived and can grow to an immense size.

The Little Button-quail bred in the grasslands on Raakajlim in 2020. Very exciting to see them.

The Zebra Finches are here in numbers which means the Porcupine Grass seed is ripe. Porcupine Grass (Triodia scariosa), sometimes called Spinifex, has an interesting story …

Our 12 month trial of scalping to restore a semi-arid grassland.

These are the geckos which live on our windows and doors, hunting for moths attracted to the lights.

The sand turds are everywhere in the Mallee and this is one of the beetles responsible!

Not a South African Weed Orchid, not an agricultural pest, but the rare Australian Broomrape.

A 67 year-old mystery has been solved by citizen science and social media, and a lost Jewel Beetle has been rediscovered.

The Orange Immortelle produces a stunning wildflower carpet.

Gazania are evil weeds with wind-dispersed seeds. We found a plant on Raakajlim which was 2km away from the nearest infestation.