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Isabelle Kingsley
02 February 2012
Ancient cultures, from Greece to Asia, have used urine as a fertiliser to provide nutrients to their crops. Is recycling our urine a radical solution to global food security and saving our waterways?
Patricia Egan
02 February 2012
Archives volunteer, Ada Klinkhamer writes of her experience rehousing and documenting photographs and illustrations prepared for use in publications by Australian Museum ornithologist, Alfred John North.
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Greyface Moray, Gymnothorax thyrsoideus
Hi rling. You are right! Thank you for pointing this out. The spelling of thyrsoideus has been corrected...
Greyface Moray, Gymnothorax thyrsoideus
Apparently a common misspelling of "Gymnothorax thyrsoideus".
http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=399889
I...
Wanderer Butterfly
The attached picture is of the larval stage of Danaus plexippus, in my garden, in Denmark, Western Australia....




Above a Red Eye Cicada
Bronze Orange Bug
Bronze Orange Bugs
Cherrynose Cicada from above
Cherrynose cicada up close
Cotton Harlequin Bugs on leaf
Double drummer cicada emerging
Floury Baker Cicada
Giant Water Bug
Green Vegetable Bug on leaf
Head of Double Drummer Cicada
Mirid on sundew
Yellow Monday Cicada
Yellow monday cicada emerging
Yellow Monday Cicada on branch