I like bugs

Found in freshwater

Australian bush

Koala

Shrimp

Fish

Fresh water to seawater

We went out to the wetlands and found some bugs!

Copepod

Water boat man

Segmented worm

Bug o'clock.

Spikes on a lemon tree at my parents place, chopping it back and then will up root.

Some plant pests and diseases....

Pink scale, the little shell.  

A spider web, didn’t see a spider.  

Black spot on rose bush 

Mites, on a rose, under the petal  

Leaf rust 

Magpie-lark 

Either Australian raven (Corvus coronoides) or little raven (Corvus mellori), both endemic, doesn’t matter too much to me.  

The two are very similar, coronoides is black with a purple-green sheen, while mellori is black with no coloured sheen. 

Callistemon uiminalis or Melaleuca viminalis, commonly known as weeping bottle brush.   

Today I learnt how to prune and learnt a technique called the crown lift. We gave a bottle brush a kind of haircut, this way we will be able to plant under it and also it looks neater.  

The grass (Kikuyu grass, Cenchrus clandestinus / Syn. Pennisetum clandestinum) is blue, as we had sprayed it the day before with Glyphosate, dyed blue to indicate where we've sprayed the chemical.  

In this instant Kikuyu grass is seen as a weed and isn’t wanted in the area. Later we'll be planting native grasses.  

Another weeping bottle brush, was leaning too far to the left and we cut off the branch, to stop it from eventually snapping off and causing itself damage.  

Didn’t get a photo of before, but here’s my drawing of what it looked like.  

And the after:  

prune pile: