PBI collecting trip to Western Australia October 2004: WA ‘04 The “bush” at Shark Bay.
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PBI collecting trip to Western Australia October 2004: WA ‘04
The “bush” at Shark Bay
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The trip took us from Perth, to the Shark Bay area, Cape Range National Park near Exmouth and back to Perth
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The “WA’04” crew, with Gerry Cassis, Michael Wall, Celia Symonds, Nik Tatarnic and Christiane Weirauch (clockwise)
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The habitats sampled comprised coastal dune vegetation as at Flat Rocks Beach, south of Geraldton ….
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...inland dunes with cycads and flowering Conospermum and Xanthorrea near Eneabba Reserve….
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…heath vegetation as in Lesuer National Park (left) and roadside collecting spots with Acacia as the one north of Carnarvon (right).
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Canyons in the Cape Range National Park (left) and Kennedy Range National Park (right) revealed not only true bugs but also the bush fly, Musca vetustissima.
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A page from the “PBI-WA04” field note book, with locality data, records of the field hosts and notes on collected Miridae and a map with some of the localities
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Celia and Michael discussing host plants
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Windy camp spot close to the beach, with the big working tent in the center
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Hardly any space left in the car for the collectors…
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Eucalyptus grandiflora, host of an undescribed plant bug of the phyline tribe Leucophoropterini
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Only five of the many species of Acacia that provided Orthotylinae and Phylinae
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Proteaceae, here represented by Banksia (background and upper right), Conospermum (upper left) and Grevillea (lower left), proved a reliable source of Miridae, but also hosted other true bugs such as Thaumastocoridae
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Some of the 24 host plant species that revealed true bugs on a collecting site west of Kennedy Range National Park
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Abandoned termite mount with new inhabitant: This harpactorine assassin bug (Reduviidae) hides in the crevices
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Some arthropods…
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…and vertebrates on the trip: a “stumpy” skink and family of emus
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Trip results
54 localities
336 hosts
> 10,000 Miridae