Damsels of the deep
19 May 2023Getting up close and personal is something you can easily do with dragonflies, and with their slightly more elegant counterparts, damselflies.
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Do not read this … it’s disgusting!
13 Apr 2023All I can say about the grub in the accompanying pic is he’s a real show-off. And definitely not anal retentive.
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A fly on the wall
15 Mar 2023Okay, so summer’s over and you’re sick of the sight and sound of flies buzzing around, following your every move, landing on your food, crawling around your eyes; getting in your hair. And here’s some bloke expecting you to read about them. Huh, some chance.
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A small inconvenience
16 Feb 2023The two suspicious characters hanging about at the top of the pic are mosquito larvae, commonly known as wrigglers, and their companion at the bottom is a red mite.
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Flights of fancy
14 Dec 2022As a photographer, one of the most helpful gadgets I ever designed for my local welding man to bring to fruition was a pipe with a clamp at one end and lateral hole at the other.
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Coming soon to North Melbourne
16 Nov 2022You probably haven’t been able to tell with all this rain lately, but spring has well and truly sprung, and I for one am thrilled.
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Delicate monster
12 Oct 2022The delicate looking creature in the accompanying pic is aptly named a lacewing. But don’t be fooled by her demure feminine charm, this lady is a cold calculating killer. And she was, even as a child.
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The gall of North Melbournites
14 Sep 2022If you’re a gardener, or just wandering North Melbourne’s parks, you’ll have seen many galls in your time, although you may not know a lot about them. Non-gardeners can mistake these often colourful and attractive little baubles for a natural part of the plant, which of course they are not.
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Busy little biter
17 Aug 2022The bull ant in the pic, photographed in the Flagstaff Gardens, is like any you might find in your back yard. He looks ferocious and dangerous, and he’s rather pleased you think so.
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Guggenheim Gumleaf
13 Jul 2022Either the owner-builder of this gum leaf structure has seen the Guggenheim Museum or influential American architect Frank Lloyd Wright paid a visit to North Melbourne before designing his famous art gallery - or so one would imagine.
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A suspicious death
15 Jun 2022There has been a murder in the garden. The whole of North Melbourne is buzzing and the renowned Italian Detective Ento Mologist, more lately of the yard [the backyard], has been brought in to investigate.
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Life on eight legs
18 May 2022Clearing out the back garden I came across this hairy orange monster with the most delightful yellow eyebrows. Assuming I’d discovered a new species I checked the reference books only to find I’d been beaten to it many times.
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