Excursion to Mystery Creek Cave,  10 May 2009
  Michael Driessen led 25 field naturalists along a disused tramway to the cave, near Lune River in far southern Tasmania.
 

Descending into Mystery Creek Cave.

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Glow-worm lavae threads.

These are silken 'fishing lines' covered with beads of sticky liquid, for catching insects that happen to be flying by.

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In the dark, each glow-worm shows as a speck of blue light.

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Close-up, a glow-worm larva is less spectacular.

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Examining a stalagmite.

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Cave spider, Hickmania troglodytes.

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A small spider in the cave.

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Hickmanoxyomma cavaticum, the Cave harvestman.

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(For more photos inside the cave, see Feb 2006 - Caving)
 

Found in wet sclerophyll the forest near the cave,
a Nemertean proboscis worm, Argononemertes australiensis,
which ejects its proboscis to trap small insects in litter,
such as collembolla (springtails).

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A beetle found under a rock in the forest.

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Giant springtails.
 (Collembola: Uchidanurinae)

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Amanita ochrophylloides; though it was nick-named the "golf ball" fungus by the younger members of our group.

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Hygrocybe graminicolor, a glutinous green fungus with white gills.

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An interesting collection of old leather boots on the track to Mystery Creek Cave.

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Photos by Amanda Thomson, Lynne Forster, George Brettingham-Moore, Abbey Throssell