Our team has just returned from the Pilliga Bush Blitz! First Nations leaders and scientists joined forces for a two-week Bush Blitz biodiversity survey on Gamilaraay, Gamilaroi and Gomeroi Countries in the Pilliga, NSW – the largest remnant semi-arid woodland in the state. The survey, which ran from 22 September to 3 October 2025, explored […]

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024-25 Bush Blitz Taxonomy Research Project Contracts! These hard-working scientists will name and describe 84 species new to science that were uncovered on Bush Blitzes across Australia. 🪱 Elena Kupriyanova (Australian Museum) 🦋 Ethan Beaver (CSIRO) 🐚 Frank Koehler (Australian Museum) 🦎 Jane Melville (Museums Victoria) 🕷️ Jenny Beard […]

In October 2024, the first expedition of the renewed Bush Blitz partnership took place on Nanda Country, near the town of Kalbarri, more than 6 hours’ drive north of Perth. A team of 16 scientists, mostly from the Western Australian Herbarium and the Western Australian Museum, travelled to the Bush Blitz base camp in Kalbarri […]

Tjiwarl Country, Western Australia 2023: Bush Blitz expedition report summarises the initial scientific findings of a Bush Blitz expedition to the northern goldfields region of Western Australia. Between 28 August and 8 September 2023, the expedition team recorded at least 602 species, including 65 species that may be completely new to western science (10 bees, […]

Rungulla, Queensland 2022: Bush Blitz expedition report summarises the initial scientific findings of a Bush Blitz expedition to northern Queensland. Between 2 and 13 May 2022 the expedition team recorded at least 829 species, including 40 species that may be completely new to western science (1 ant, 5 flies, 6 true bugs, 2 spiders, 22 […]

Far West Coast, South Australia 2021: Bush Blitz expedition report summarises the initial scientific findings of a Bush Blitz expedition to South Australia. Between 22 November and 3 December 2021 the expedition team recorded at least 922 species, including 33 species that may be completely new to western science (6 bees, 11 wasps, 1 moth, […]