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Join us looking for and learning about all sorts of local native wildlife. Most events are free for members, but please register through TryBooking to let us know you're coming.

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Come with Belinda Raymond, the Entomological Society of Victoria and Friends of Native Wildlife on a fascinating journey to discover insects and other invertebrates of the night and learn about their patterns and camouflage.

Belinda will tell us about insects, spiders and other invertebrates, followed by a walk in Long Hollow Heathland to see them with the help of a bug-attracting UV light.

Belinda Raymond works for Citywide looking after George St Reserve and Donald MacDonald Reserve. While studying Conservation and Land Management, she gained an interest in fungi, plants and pollination and joined ESV. Her research over the last few years has shown how important they are to our ecosystem and the plants within it.

Belinda currently hosts a monthly insect survey with ESV at George St Reserve in Sandringham.

This event will include a brief Annual General Meeting for Friends of Native Wildlife.

Tue 26 Mar 2024 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Beaumaris Senior Citizens Centre (behind Beaumaris Library), Beaumaris

Join Friends of Native Wildlife to discover the tiny critters in the Tulip St Pond next to Sandringham Family Leisure Centre.

Waterbugs, or fresh water invertebrates, are small animals found in healthy water. Many are the larval forms of insects we know well in their adult form, like dragonflies. Waterbugs are an important food source for frogs, fish and other animals. The range of waterbug species we find can give a clue about the health of the water: specific species are vulnerable to different types of pollution.

After our waterbugs event, you might like to drop in to the Gala Opening of the Bayside Community Nursery, only 400m away up Reserve Road.

Children accompanied by an adult please.

Free for FoNW members (join at https://bayfonw.org.au/join).

Sat 6 Apr 2024 9:00am to 10:30am
Tulip St Pond, CHELTENHAM VIC
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