Day 1 Flying into Roxby Downs, I looked down at the expanse of Lake Torrens from the air and thought......can a barren-looking place like that be home to any life at all? Since then, just two days in, I have…

The kids of the Roxby Downs community in north eastern South Australia had a wonderful time on Sunday meeting scientists and some of their more "interesting" finds from the Lake Torrens Bush Blitz currently underway. The community day, held at…

Micarea eucalypti was collected during a Bush Blitz survey of Namadgi and Kosciuszko National Parks in December 2013. Its description has now been published in Telopea, an open-access, online, internationally peer-reviewed journal of plant systematics. The lichen genus Micarea is mainly…

The Bush Blitz crew has headed to Lake Torrens in South Australia with a team of scientists from the South Australian Museum, Herbarium of South Australia, Flinders University, University of Adelaide, Queensland Museum and La Trobe University in search of bees,…

A few weeks back I had the good fortune to visit South Australia to prepare for the upcoming Lake Torrens Bush Blitz. Part of the trip involved a behind-the-scenes tour of the South Australian Museum with Peter Hudson, who’ll be…

In March 2014, a Bush Blitz survey was conducted on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. At least 643 species were new records for the island, including 39 species believed to be new to science. One threatened and 7 exotic and pest…