Easter Camp in Cradle Mt park, April 2010
2. Plateau Circuit: Overland Track, Crater Lake, Marions Lookout, Plateau Creek, Horse Track.
 

A multi-trunked King Billy pine.

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Assassin bug, Psedobargylia sp.

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Velvet worm.

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We paused by the old boatshed at Crater Lake.

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Water droplets in a spiderweb on Phebalium montanum beside Crater Lake.

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Persoonia gunnii.

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Crater Lake.

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An Entiminae weevil.

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A chrysomelid leaf beetle, Palaeomela sp.

This species, along with with a few others, has not yet been named.

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Pellet regurgitated by a currawong.

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Cushion plant.

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 Strawberry pine, Microcachrys tetragona, or possibly Diselma archeri.

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The view from a cushion-plant.

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Our attention was caught be a curious wriggling in the short alpine grass.

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The source of the wriggling - a wingless moth.

This very interesting unnamed species belongs to the genus Pterolocera (family Anthelidae), and in this genus the females are usually wingless. Males are broad-winged and nocturnal with very large comb-like antennae. The larvae are thought to feed mostly on sedges and grasses.

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Millipede.

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Eye-to-eye!

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A Tasmanian grasshopper, Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis, in its natural surrounds.

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Truganinia bauerae.
It doesn't have a common name, but 'Bauera grasshopper' would do, based in its scientific name and where it is usually found.

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Quoll tracks in the mud on Horse Track.

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Photos by Geoff Fenton, Abbey Throssell, Amanda Thomson