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Hello everyone. Alison Milton has produced the June quarterly CNM newsletter. It has some interesting information about what the Nature Mappers have been doing and finding. We hope you enjoy the read....

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Discussion

Hejor1 wrote:

25 Jun 2025

@KylieWaldon happens to me all the time!

Muscidae (family)

KylieWaldon wrote:

25 Jun 2025

I didn't Hejor1. I will try and get a pic off this one and put it up, but I only noticed it when editing the photos! excellent camo!

Muscidae (family)

Hejor1 wrote:

22 Jun 2025

@KylieWaldon there's a small brown crab spider on the tip of the leaf, did you happen to get any other angles of the spider?

Muscidae (family)

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

21 Jun 2025

A male

Boreoides subulatus

WendyEM wrote:

21 Jun 2025

aaah .....I did wonder about those fat front legs! thanks Kim. Tapeigaster " .... can be recognised by the combination of the thorax dorsally striped, the mid and fore femora noticeably inflated (compared to the hind femora),..." SOURCE (21/06/2025) https://tasmanianinsectfieldguide.com/hexapoda/insectsoftasmaniadiptera/suborder-brachycera/infraorder-cyclorrhapha/heleomyzidae/genus-tapeigaster/tapeigaster-annulipes/
I gather they have an interest in fungi - the pictures on this reference are sitting on fungi, like mine Tapeigaster sp. = Fungus flies

Tapeigaster sp. (genus)