This post covers the flora and fauna seen on a walk on the track towards Shipwreck Creek. The bush generally was a mass of growth with a whole lotta flowering. The Kennedia rubicunda has gone completely berserk in the gullies: in this are it was at least 5m up some of the trees.
Click on this to enlarge it and see the amount of blossom.
Here the
Kennedia has friends in the form of
Hardenbergia violacea and
Platylobium formosum.
I am pretty sure this is
Corinideum elatum.
It is popular with insects. From the patterned wings I suspect this is a fruit fly.
I think the member of the
Fabaceae is
Aotus ericoides: the leaves certainly seemed heathy.
Diuris orientis was in good numbers in the heath.
One of my target species was
Glossodia minor (accept no substitute names such as
Caladenia minorata). Several specimens were in the heath.
Frances found our first Sun Orchid of the season.
Thelymitra ixioides was an unexpected bonus.
The second "hoped for" species was
Caladenia tentaculata. I stopped where I (eventually) found some last year, said that to Frances and she pointed her stick saying "Like that?" She had her eye in!
A grasshopper on a
Coronideum scorpioides.
A small moth on I think
Leptorhyncos nitidulus.An insect (6 legs, count 'em) on a leaf of
Coronideum elatum.
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