Csteele4
I'm Christina/Tina, and I am self employed running a creative fibre business dyeing yarns and fibre inspired by the colours of native flora and fauna. I also work casually for an ecological consulting company doing flora surveys, and am learning the skills to assist with fauna, as well. I'm a volunteer firey, and after spending all of the summer of 2019/2020 firefighting, I left my job as a local librarian for a bit of a break, became very interested in the incredible plants which started to emerge in the local bushland when the rains came in spring, and went back to Uni part-time to finish the Environmental Science degree I had started and then paused in 2015, changing my major to Conservation Ecology with a minor in Botany. I'm currently studying via distance at UNE.
Moderator categories
Csteele4 is a moderator for the following categories:
Fungi | Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like] Caps on stems; none of the above Caps conical/spherical & deeply pitted [morels] Caps funnel-like Caps otherwise Caps saddle-like to markedly convoluted [false morels] Caps on stems; pores below caps [boletes & stemmed polypores] Boletes - Fleshy texture, stems central (more-or-less) Polypores - Non-fleshy texture, stems central or lateral Caps on stems; teeth below caps Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like] Furry, white or greyish upper surfaces Gills connected by cross veins Other caps, gills below, no stem Clubs or stalks (maybe a forked or broader apex) Clubs/stalks on invertebrates Clubs/stalks on soil Clubs/stalks on wood or on leaf/twig litter Convoluted to brain-like [Brain jelly & look-alikes] Coralloid fungi, markedly branched Disk-like to cup-like Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus] Cups or disks - with no 'eggs' Fungal galls, other rusts, leaf spots, etc Fungal galls Other rusts, leaf spots, sooty moulds Other fungi Moulds Not moulds Other fungi on wood Jelly-like; smooth, featureless surface Other black fungi <hysterothecial> Other non-black fungi Spherical or cobblestone-like or spotted/pimpled crust <perithecial> Puffballs & the like Fruitbody thick walled, splitting from the top Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores Other puffballs, etc (& the unknowns) Simple spore sac, with an apical hole [puffballs] Spore sac on a star-like base [earthstars] Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood Pored or somewhat maze-like on underside [bracket polypores] Teeth on underside Underside smooth or wrinkled/roughened <Stereum etc> Stinkhorns: with a smelly, brownish spore slime Stinkhorns, cage-like Stinkhorns, radiating arms atop a stem Stinkhorns, some other shape- and miscellaneous Truffles Uncategorised FungiCacti & Succulents | Climbers & Mistletoes Daisies Ferns and Clubmosses Grasses Gum Trees Lilies & Irises Other Fresh Water Plants Other Shrubs Other Trees Other Wildflowers & Herbs Peas Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes Wattles
Slime Moulds (Myxomycetes)
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Csteele4 is a moderator for the following locations:
Captains Flat, NSW | Tallaganda National Park | Tallaganda State Forest
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- Unidentified sightings 23
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Insects
- Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
- Bees (Hymenoptera, Apiformes)
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Beetles (Coleoptera)
- Click beetles (Elateridae)
- Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)
- Carab beetles (Carabidae)
- Jewel beetles (Buprestidae)
- Lady beetles (Coccinellidae)
- Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)
- Longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae)
- Stag beetles (Lucanidae)
- Water beetles (several families)
- Weevils (Curculionoidea)
- Other beetles
- Checkered Beetles (Cleridae)
- Rove beetles (Staphylinidae)
- Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera)
- Cicadas (Hemiptera, Cicadoidea)
- Cockroaches (Blattodea, several families)
- Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata)
- Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera)
- Leafhoppers & planthoppers (Hemiptera, several families)
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Moths (Lepidoptera)
- Anthelid moths (Anthelidae)
- Case moths (Psychidae)
- Concealer moths (Oecophoridae)
- Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae)
- Emperor moths (Saturniidae)
- Geometer moths (Geometridae)
- Hawk moths (Sphingidae)
- Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae)
- Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae)
- Sun moths (Castniidae)
- Swift and Ghost moths (Hepialidae)
- Tiger moths (Arctiinae)
- Tortricid moths (Tortricidae)
- Wood moths (Cossidae)
- Other moths
- Praying mantises (Mantodea)
- Primitive insects
- Psyllids, lerps, aphids & whiteflies (Hemiptera, several families)
- Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta)
- Scale insects & mealybugs (Hemiptera, Coccoidea)
- Stick insects (Phasmatodea)
- True bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera)
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True flies (Diptera)
- Bee flies (Bombyliidae)
- Blow flies (Calliphoridae)
- Bristle Flies (Tachinidae)
- Crane flies, midges, mosquitoes & gnats (several families)
- Flower-loving flies (Apioceridae)
- Hover flies (Syrphidae)
- Long-legged Flies (Dolichopodidae)
- March or Horse flies (Tabanidae)
- Mydas flies (Mydidae)
- Pelecorhynchid flies (Pelecorhynchidae)
- Robber flies (Asilidae)
- Stiletto flies (Therevidae)
- Tangle-vein flies (Nemestrinidae)
- Other true flies
- Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita)
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Other insects
- Plant Lice (Psocodea, Pscoptera, several families)
- Caddisflies (Trichoptera)
- Dobsonflies & Alderflies (Megaloptera)
- Earwigs (Dermaptera)
- Mayflies (Ephemeroptera)
- Scorpionflies and Hangingflies (Mecoptera)
- Stoneflies (Plecoptera)
- Termites (superfamily Termitoidea)
- Thrips (Thysanoptera)
- Webspinners (Embioptera)
- Fleas (Siphonaptera)
- Lice (Psocodea, Phthiraptera, several families)
- Lacewings (Neuroptera)
- Unidentified Insect Galls
