At the General Meeting on Thursday 7 April, 2022 members Kristi Ellingsen and Tony Daley were presented with the Victorian Entomological Society’s Le Souëf Memorial Award. They then gave a lively and informative presentation entitled “Alert not Alarmed - Improving the Public Perception of Insects”. Visit the online Field Guide to the insects of Tasmania: https://tasmanianinsectfieldguide.com
TFNC members Simon Grove and Lynne Forster, in collaboration with their colleague Nicholas Porch, have published the first in a proposed series of checklists of Tasmanian insects. This checklist is a catalogue of all the described species of Coleoptera (beetles) from Tasmania, including Macquarie Island. The book includes a meticulous up-to-date list of 2,864 species including over 600 endemics and [...]
Congratulations to TFNC members Kristi Ellingsen and Tony Daley who have won the Entomological Society of Victoria’s Le Souëf Memorial Award. They have made a major contribution to the knowledge of Tasmania’s insects, and particularly to its public availability. They thoroughly deserve this prestigious award, and the club whole-heartedly congratulates them. You can find out more about Kristi and Tony and see some [...]
NatureTrackers is a program of citizen science projects, bringing together schools and the community to track the status of our threatened species and better understand their needs. It’s coordinated by the Bookend Trust, a not-for-profit founded in Tasmania in 2008, which inspires people of all ages and abilities to develop careers and interest in the environment, and to find positive [...]
Call for observations from Central North Field Naturalists. Flame Robins are conspicuous birds that are relatively easy to identify. They have complex seasonal movements so to assess their population we would like your help to find out where they are at different times of the year. To understand the abundance and movements of Flame Robins, we would like to gather [...]
The Save Our Seabirds Project is managed by the Pennicott Foundation as part of their mission to protect our environment for future generations. The Pennicott Foundation and Friends of Fisher Island (Wildcare Inc) are undertaking a project to eradicate black rats from George Rocks (in the north east of Tasmania) and upgrade the 70 year old Fisher Island research station, [...]
Empowering people to save the natural world Earthwatch is a research charity working to create positive behaviour change for the environment. They bring people, science and nature together to create transformational experiences. Visit Earthwatch website Visit the Earthwatch Australia Facebook page
Bush Blitz is Australia’s largest nature discovery program. Around three-quarters of Australia’s biodiversity is still waiting to be discovered by science. Bush Blitz is a unique cross-sector partnership that organises expeditions to document plants and animals across Australia. Visit bushblitz.org.au
Recently while enjoying a walk on Mt Wellington, two of our members met one of the Park Rangers who was eradicating European Wasp nests. The Ranger requests that anyone who comes across a nest should contact him, and provide information on location of the next, by a GPS reading if available. Wellington Park Ranger: Ben Masterman ben.masterman@wellingtonpark.org.au Phone: 6238 2976, 0408 517 534 [...]
We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we study natural history.