Are you interested in giving feedback as to how we can support endangered species? NRE Tas encourages you to have your say on how Tasmania can protect, recover, and value our threatened species now and into the future. Opportunity for feedback on this first stage is open for public consultation until 5 pm, Friday 22 … Read more
You may be interested to see that not all of our traffic comes from Tasmania. Here are the top 7 geographic visitors to the site from the last month.
Caterpillars by colour has also had an upgrade! We hope you like it.
“Moths by colour” has be rearranged in an effort to make the page load more efficiently, and reduce some of the bandwidth used. We hope it helps you to make quick identifications!
After a very long and fairly tedious few days, all of those broken videos have now been fixed! Now there are over 100 (mostly terrible) videos for you to enjoy at your leisure 😉
Sorry about the site being offline for a couple of days at the end of January. We pay for a plan that is usually enough, but with the peak visits in January, and lots of new material being added, we exceeded our quota. Hopefully that won’t happen very often.
We encourage you to attend the Miniature Wonders talk presented by Dr Karen Richards and Dr Jo Potter-Craven on July 27. The talk highlights the importance of our often overlooked threatened insects. Proceeds raised by the presentation will be used to support our website. Thanks so much to Dr. Karen Richards for nominating us. We … Read more
We’re so excited to have been awarded the Entomological Society of Victoria’s Le Souef Memorial Award, 2021. This is to acknowledge the contribution made by amateurs in the development of knowledge of insect fauna. We are very grateful for the Tasmanian Field Naturalists club, in particular Margaret Warren for taking the time to prepare the … Read more
As promised, we’ve been working hard to rebuild the moths by colour and caterpillars by colour pages. This was a lot more complicated to complete than our last site. After more than 50 “sittings” we’ve got it ready to release, although still have some tweaks to go. Happy hunting and have a lovely Christmas .
It’s exciting to see that three of our consistent supporters Simon Grove, Lynne Forster and Nick Porch have published an illustrated catalogue of Tasmanian beetles. You can order them from the Royal Society of Tasmania. https://rst.org.au/product-category/products/. I can’t wait to get my copy!