![Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Acton, ACT - Yesterday by HelenCross](https://api.naturemapr.org/api/sightings/4717884/images/1?width=300&height=300 "Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Acton, ACT - Yesterday by HelenCross")
Announcements
1 Jan 2026
Hello everyone. Alison Milton has created the December quarterly CNM newsletter. It has some interesting information for Canberra Nature Mappers and some excellent photos. There is also an article abo...
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Canberra Nature Map's Newsletter for September 2025
CANBERRA NATURE MAP ASSOCIATION - PLEASE JOIN
Flowering records for native pollinator study
Events
22 Dec 2025
The inaugural Annual General Meeting of the the Canberra Nature Map Association will be held on Thursday February 12, 6.30 to 8.30 pm, at the Downer Community Centre, Frencham Place, Downer.The Canber...
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Discussion
Mike
wrote:
2 hrs ago
Happy New Year @AlisonMilton, thanks for another great newsletter. Also thanks for verifying many of my insect sightings, even though I cannot match the colourful ones that you find. The number and quality of your sightings are amazing.
NEWSLETTER FOR DECEMBER 2025 AND THE FUTURE OF CANBERRA NATURE MAP
Avery
wrote:
5 hrs ago
It's great to see one actually reproducing in nature - all of the pods in the area I check out occasionally (connecting area between Mts Ainslie & Majura, mostly NE of Bragg St. park) got eaten, and there weren't very many to begin with.
Eryngium ovinum
jb2602
wrote:
5 hrs ago
Adult male feeding his daughter
Callocephalon fimbriatum (identifiable birds)
Significant sightings
- Melanodryas cucullata cucullata at Rendezvous Creek, ACT
- Neosericornis citreogularis
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- Lucienia cycloptera
- Hypochrysops delicia at Theodore, ACT
- Hypochrysops delicia at Bywong, NSW
- Osa sinclairae
- Cyphaleus quadrispinosus at Crowther, NSW
- Mitrasacme serpyllifolia at Oallen, NSW
- Stylidium despectum at Cook, ACT
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