![Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Bywong, NSW - Yesterday by Lianne](https://cdn.naturemapr.org/api/sightings/4725720/images/1?width=300&height=300 "Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Bywong, NSW - Yesterday by Lianne")
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Discussion
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
2 hrs ago
Plant that it is feeding on looks like an exotic Abelia or Wegelia
Xylocopa (Lestis) aerata
chriselidie
wrote:
2 hrs ago
This is Epiphyas postvittana - see adult moth sighting 4705068 verification.
Epiphyas postvittana
HaukeKoch
wrote:
4 hrs ago
Presumably the same female returned to the same bush today: Xylocopa (Lestis) aerata (Metallic Green Carpenter Bee, Golden-Green Carpenter Bee)
Xylocopa (Lestis) aerata
Mike
wrote:
7 hrs ago
Thanks @Heinol for your reply. I will continue recording fungi that are new to me or in new places, and hope they make a useful contribution. I wonder about the identification skills of some of the foragers in the local pine forest though they probably stick to a couple of tried and true species.
Agaricus sp.
MattM
wrote:
7 hrs ago
Can't quite make it out from the images, but could also be S. verticillata which has awns giving the inflorescence a bristly appearance.
Setaria parviflora
Significant sightings
- Xylocopa (Lestis) aerata at Chapman, ACT
- Sminthopsis murina at Hackett, ACT
- Corunastylis cornuta at Captains Flat, NSW
- Corunastylis clivicola at Captains Flat, NSW
- Burhinus grallarius
- Appias paulina at Uriarra Village, ACT
- Cenchrus longispinus at Macgregor, ACT
- Keyacris scurra at Wallaroo, NSW
- Asparagus virgatus at Mawson, ACT
- Cenchrus longispinus at Kenny, ACT
- Keyacris scurra at Bendoura, NSW
- Paropsisterna anomala at Crowther, NSW
- Rhopalosiphum maidis at Higgins, ACT
- Burhinus grallarius at Googong, NSW
- Graphium eurypylus at Karabar, NSW
- Calyptomyrmex beccarii at Crowther, NSW
- Burhinus grallarius at Bonython, ACT
- Carpophagus banksiae at Oallen, NSW
- Parapylus bicinctus at Tolbar, NSW
- Melanodryas cucullata cucullata at Rendezvous Creek, ACT
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