Busy blitz inspires younger generation
Wow, we’ve been busy! We’ve scoured the Henbury Nature Reserve, collected specimens and even found time to take heaps of fab pictures. Despite the expedition’s wet and cold start- which […]
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Teachers go wild for science
What do you get when you put 15 scientists and five teachers on a 500,000 hectare property? The 17th Bush Blitz of course! Teachers and scientists from across Australia […]
Hiltaba shines as the rains come down
The desert can be harsh, hot and unforgiving, and in this climate the ecological currency is water. When water holes and creeks are dry and the sun beats down on […]
Discovering the truth about true bugs
Bugs, beetles, moths, crickets, katydids and more have been attracted to the light of the night-trapping sheet at Fish River’s Bush Blitz - fluttering, crawling and hopping around the light, over […]
New truffle species named
It’s not just the likes of Beyonce who get new species named after them! A new species of native truffle found on Neds Corner Station during a recent Bush Blitz has […]
What’s out there? Creature hunting on Skullbone Plains
Bush Blitz scientists are heading out to Tasmania’s central highlands next week hoping to discover more new species, this time on the evocatively named Skullbone Plains. The team of […]
We’re going on a Bush Blitz…to Neds Corner Station
Scientists from across Australia will ‘blitz’ Neds Corner Station in Victoria’s mallee country next week — spending some 2,000 hours over 10 days surveying the reserve’s plants and animals. The scientists expect they’ll […]
Bush Blitzers go eight-eyed spider stalking
Spectacular sunsets are a feature of our evenings out here on the Pilbara’s spinifex plains — where the red dirt and horizon don’t seem to end. I’m at Cane River […]
