Wildlife Fire-recovery Project- Flowerdale and Strath Creek. I identified the insect pictured left as a praying mantis, because of the barbed front legs and the way they were held. At least I got the insect bit right. It is in fact a Mantis Fly. Curiously it is neither a mantis nor is it a fly. It is a type of lacewing, also known as a Mantid Lacewing. Obviously in the identification process I even got the insect family wrong.

A project of the Upper Goulburn Landcare Network. What is Landcare Fire Recovery? Since the devastating Black Saturday bushfires of Feb 2009, the Upper Goulburn Landcare Network has been working with landholders and local communities in the Murrindindi and Mitchell Shires to rebuild and rehabilitate the local environment on private property. This blog presents some of the stories. Thursday, December 19, 2013.

When he returned, the blue-tongues were on the door mat, with one gripping the other in a very firm bite on the side of the body. Blue-tongues do not lay eggs, they give birth to two or three live young that are read.

My photographs of life on this beautiful island. About Living on Vancouver Island. A Bicycle at a Bakery. The bicycle above hangs outside an Artisan bread store in Cowichan Bay called True Grain Bread. I like its bread rider carrying home its bread for dinner.