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

  Pencil pines Athrotaxis cupressoides on the way to Pine Lake. Note the large areas of rock scree on the hillside beyond the lake.

The gorgeous Niveoscincus greeni (Northern snow skink) found amongst rock at Pine Lake.

JW

Metallic ringtail damselfly, Austrolestes cingulatus.

AT

A Darkling beetle (family Tenebrionidae), Coripera-deplanata.

A saproxylic beetle, dependent on decaying wood at some part of its life-cycle.

AT

Mathews blue butterfly, Neolucia mathewi.

AT

A green lacewing, Myriodactylus sp., trapped by the surface tension of a pond. 

Phyllocladus aspleniifolius (Celerytop pine) in fruit.

These are beautiful fruit and the structure is quite peculiar. The red bracts are fleshy cone scales, the white flesh is an aril and the dark spot is actually the true fruit, containing a single seed.

JW

Photos by Abbey Throssell, Geoff Fenton, James Wood