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Seemed to be guarding its territory.

Observation by Alister Harley, posted to Facebook by FIshing SA magazine. These are screenshots from a short video clip. Date is correct, time is approximate.

Undisturbed native scrub. Stringybark scrub with a dense understorey and sandstone and quartzite outcrops.

Male

Male Maratus albus, locally abundant

https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/2226

On dead tree trunk, among native bush on sandy clay soil with outcrops of sandstone and quartzite.

Valiant wreck

Omphalotus nidiformis glowing at night behind a possum skull

Plant c. 2 m high; leaf 12 mm long by 2.5 mm wide; inflorescence 6 cm in diameter; fruit 11 mm long.

Was able to jump a very large distance compared to body size

Photo taken 1/8/2019 at El Questro station.

Very young larva on eucalyptus (?viminalis) They lose the imapressive depth of colour during growth.

several plants co located, 2 colour forms, one nearly purebred, other with tubes partly white

Found under oak trees on the edges of the radiata pine forest