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Feb 12 2025
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Backyard Zoology: A bandicoot in the hand is worth two in the bush

There’s no way around it, when we live with nature, we affect nature and it affects us. It’s in the front of my mind when trimming back plants around our yard. Tiny crab spiders launch themselves on silken ropes, and plant hoppers leap skyward...

Amanda De George
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Bird of the Month: White-faced Heron

The White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae) is February’s bird of the month. This waterbird is common across most of Australia and is a familiar sight in wetlands and along coastal rock platforms. However, their adaptable habitat preferences...

Ewan Auld
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The strange case of the stink bug that wasn’t

Social media is lighting up in 2025 with images of all kinds of insect: native bees, bugs, beetles, flies, wasps and many more. Invertebrate biodiversity really seems to be having a moment. I normally use this column to write about plants, but am...

Emma Rooksby
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Letter to the editor

Artist in France: ‘I was very lucky to be the only Australian selected’

By Wollongong artist Salwa Woodroffe In the Champagne-Ardenne area of France, the stunning Chateau d’Orquevaux in the village of Orquevaux north-east of Paris offers a residency for visual artists, sculptors, writers, poets, musicians and film...

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