Federation of Tasmanian Field Naturalists weekend,  14~16 Mar 2008
Excursion to Lake Ada
 

We saw plenty of these Southern pyrgomorph grasshoppers, Monistria concinna.

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This wombat jawbone was near the lake in a sandy area with many wombat burrows.

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Exocarpos nanus fruiting on a rock outcrop near lake Ada.

Note the paired diminutive leaf scales distinguishing this plant from the very similar E. humifusus which was growing on the other side of the outcrop.
The red oval at the tip is a thin skinned leathery drupe containing a single seed. The flower stalk is swollen and fleshy and is termed a pseudofruit and is consumed by animals and aids dispersal of the seed.

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Southern grass skink, Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii.

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Heliotrope Moth, Utetheisa pulchelloides.

It's a 'blow in' from the mainland. None of its food plants - Boraginaceae family and Crotularia sp. (Fabaceae) occur in Tasmania.

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Orange-spotted cicada, Diemeniana hirsuta

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Flatworms.

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Photos by Geoff Fenton, James Wood, Abbey Throssell