Hoary Sunray (Leucochrysum albicans) is listed Endangered federally as well as in Vic and NSW state legislation.

And I don't think it passes the sniff test. It is in every scrap of scribbly gun woodland I visit in the ACT and surrounds. Seems to do well under disturbance (loves roadsides).

UTC is *MINUS* 10 hours. But you know, what are details to a digital forensics specialist.

Murder trial testimony around mushroom identification and citizen science is utterly fascinating to me this week:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Labor pulling ahead on the betting markets in the last week.

If I could time travel I would go back to 1978.

To a studio in Düsseldorf.

Kraftwerk are recording 'The Robots'.

I would tell those cats that 46 years later it is the most listened to song by a 4 year old in Canberra.

Summer looks around the neighbourhood

r/fednews if you want to feel some fraction of the human cost right now in the US public service.

What a whopper!

First time I've seen this genus. Not a common bee. Check out how chunky she is. Honeybee for scale.

Paracolletes sp.

Gundaroo, NSW.

#wildoz #ozpollinators

Today in niche Facebook groups:

"Dubbo Indian Mynah Control"

Just released 60,000 wasps in our house.

Fly free my tiny Trichogramma pretiosum, and fuck up those clothes moths eggs.

Data people salaries in Australia, 2024.

(Spotted on LinkedIn)

Hot new bee coming in from the garden.

Megachile aurifrons has some pretty arresting blood red eyes.

Found hanging on the brim of my hat, while I was wearing it.

The Beautiful Badge Huntsman (Neosparassus calligaster).

Beautiful, but too close to my face.

Simply Wall Street's snowflake analysis.

Their whole dashboard is great, but this is a point of difference.

Here's a handsome Hylaeus nubilosus from yesterday.

Who am I kidding. All masked bees are handsome.

Australian rainforest shrub's flowers found to mimic the rotting leaf litter that accumulates on branches, to fool detritus-loving beetles into pollination 😳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Maratus pavonis found on the front-porch

Getting away from the desk a few times a day to stand in the sunny garden to watch/photograph floral visitors.

The most abundant visitor to the Prostanthera are honeybees, but here are the more interesting characters.

Exoneura / Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) / Enchoptera apicalis

I cannot stress enough how lucky I am to be making a transition to a tech/coding role just as Chat-GPT gets rolling.

It is an absolutely indispensable day-to-day tool for someone like me.