Calingiri CBH on 8 August 2024. Photo: Phil Melling.
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Calingiri CBH on 8 August 2024. Photo: Phil Melling.
Calingiri CBH on 8 August 2024. Photo: Phil Melling.
Commonly called Satellite flies as they can hone in on and follow a wasp or native bee to it's nest, sometimes in small swarms. They lay their eggs in wasp or native bee nests.
This day they were ignoring the many wasps there and feeding on nectar from the Babingtonia triandra flowers.
Photos: Jean
Genus Protomiltogramma ID Tony D. inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/107009563
Commonly called Satellite flies as they can hone in on and follow a wasp or native bee to it's nest, sometimes in small swarms. They lay their eggs in wasp or native bee nests.
This day they were ignoring the many wasps there and feeding on nectar from the Babingtonia triandra flowers.
Photos: Jean
Genus Protomiltogramma ID Tony D. inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/107009563
Commonly called Satellite flies as they can hone in on and follow a wasp or native bee to it's nest, sometimes in small swarms. They lay their eggs in wasp or native bee nests.
This day they were ignoring the many wasps there and feeding on nectar from the Babingtonia triandra flowers.
Pity about the windswept look!
Photos: Jean
Genus Protomiltogramma ID Tony D. inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/107009563
Commonly called Satellite flies as they can hone in on and follow a wasp or native bee to it's nest, sometimes in small swarms. They lay their eggs in wasp or native bee nests.
This day they were ignoring the many wasps there and feeding on nectar from the Babingtonia triandra flowers.
Photos: Jean
Genus Protomiltogramma ID Tony D. inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/107009563
Commonly called Satellite flies as they can hone in on and follow a wasp or native bee to it's nest, sometimes in small swarms. They lay their eggs in wasp or native bee nests.
This day they were ignoring the many wasps there and feeding on nectar from the Babingtonia triandra flowers.
In this photo the fly was sitting on a Gnephosis sp plant.
Photos: Jean
Genus Protomiltogramma ID Tony D. inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/107009563
Commonly called Satellite flies as they can hone in on and follow a wasp or native bee to it's nest, sometimes in small swarms. They lay their eggs in wasp or native bee nests.
This day they were ignoring the many wasps there and feeding on nectar from the Babingtonia triandra flowers.
Photos: Jean
Genus Protomiltogramma ID Tony D. inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/107009563
Commonly called Satellite flies as they can hone in on and follow a wasp or native bee to it's nest, sometimes in small swarms. They lay their eggs in wasp or native bee nests.
This day they were ignoring the many wasps there and feeding on nectar from the Babingtonia triandra flowers.
Photos: Jean
Genus Protomiltogramma ID Tony D. inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/107009563
There were a few grasshoppers at the reserve when we visited.
Photo: Jean
There were a few grasshoppers at the reserve when we visited.
Photo: Jean
There were a few grasshoppers at the reserve when we visited.
Photo: Jean
There were a few grasshoppers at the reserve when we visited.
Photo: Jean
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 3200
f/2.5
Foreground: 5 x 25 seconds
Sky: 16 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 21 shot panorama of the Crux/Carina region of the Milky Way as it aligns perpendicular to the horizon near Calinjiri, 2 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.
This was the first of several locations this particular night. I had scoped this location on Google Maps, there was a big, majestic gum tree standing alone in a field but when I arrived it was nowhere to be seen, the farm owner had cut it down. So I had to compromise and put myself in there instead! I'm not sure what the crop is, I thought it was a young canola crop but I don't think it is as the canola in other spots is already fully grown and ready for harvest.
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 3200
f/2.5
Foreground: 37 x 6 seconds
Sky: 78 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 115 shot panorama of the Milky Way above Lake Ninan, about two hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. I was hoping for some water in the lake but as you can see it was dry as a bone.
The light pollution on the right is from the nearby Wheatbelt town of Calingiri. Just to the left of this are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds.
Nikon d5500
85mm
ISO 3200
f/2.5
Foreground: 17 x 6 seconds
Sky: 36 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 53 shot panorama of the Milky Way as it rises early in the evening above Lake Ninan, about two hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.
Nikon d5500
85mm
ISO 3200
f/2.5
Foreground: 11 x 6 seconds
Sky: 31 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 42 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above a dry Lake Ninan about 2 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. This is one of several panoramas I shot on a recent all nighter in the Lake Ninan & New Norcia area. At this time of year we can still get the Milky Way rising from the east, as it is in this image, and then from around 1 or 2am get it setting towards the west.
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