Transcript Tasmania, Australia, January 2004

PBI
TAS
04
PBI collecting trip to Tasmania, Australia January
2004: TAS’04
The Frankland
Range overlooking
Lake Pedder
Hobart Habour and River Derwent
Map of
Tasmania
Our collecting route for
Miridae and aquatic
Heteroptera practically circled
the island. Starting in Hobart,
we returned in 14 days after
sampling the diverse south
temperate habitats of “Tassie”
Personnel
The “TAS’04” team
was senior scientist
Michael Schwartz
(storing plant bugs)
and doctoral
candidate Paul P.
Tinerella, from
North Dakota State
University (in
action)
Mount Wellington: Organ Pipes
Cradle Mt
We sampled habitats
which included alpine
heath lands of the
central highlands,
typified by the Cradle
Mountain area, . . .
Epacris sp. ? (Epacridaceae)
Cradle Mountain
Near Huon Campground
Nothofagus gunnii (Fagaceae)
Arve
Rive
. . . tall eucalyptus as found in
the Arve River forest and Hartz
Mountain, . . .
Telopea truncata,waratah (Proteaceae),
Lake Esperance
Russell Falls
Acacia sp.,(Leguminosae) nr
Russell Falls Headquarters
Eucalyptus regnans F.Muell.
(Myrtaceae)
Eucalyptus sp., Recherche Bay
Southwestern
NP
. . . temperate rainforest
and moorlands of
Southwest National Park,
...
tall heath near Couta Rocks
Mick Murphy’s fishing boat at Couta Rocks
Granville Harbour
Heath with yellow flower and red fruit
Paul collecting in pond surrounded
by heath
… and the temperate
forest of Freycinet
National Park in the
low-lying eastern
region.
Storm near Exeter
Devils Kitchen, Tasman Peninsula
Spiky Bridge near Swansea
Friendly Beaches heath land
Casuarina wet with dew
Friendly
Beaches
Although plant
bug collecting
was difficult in
the rain, Paul
never had a day
off. His quarry are
aquatic after all.
Dip net samples
included the
corixids
Micronecta
tasmanica
Wroblewski (top
right) and
Diaprepocoris
pedderensis
Knowles (bottom
right)
Aquatic
collectin
g
Tasmania has a
thriving leather
wood honey
industry. We found
it fascinating that
hives were set in
dense forest for
honey bees. By
chance we stopped
in at the
“Tasmanian
Honey Co.”
offices in Perth for
some excellent
“samples.”
Headquarters
Honey from the
Forest
Eucryphia lucida
(Eucryphiaceae),
leather wood tree
Forest hives
“Honey from the Forest”
Casuarina
bugs
Allocasuarina monilifera
(Casuarinaceae) with
Ommatodema sp. (Mirini)
Leptospermum bugs
Leptospermum sp.
(Myrtaceae) with
undescribed
leucophoropterine
phyline plant bug
Melaleuca sp.
(Myrtaceae) with
undescribed
phyline plant bug
Melaleuca bugs
NTO’s
Green rosella, Lake Pedder Chalet
Kurrawong, Lake St. Clair
Echidna, Cradle Mountain
Pademellon, Edger Campground
Some ‘none-target-organisms’ encountered during our travels
Wombat, Cradle Mountain
Paul found this
exquisite
specimen of the
coral lichen,
Cladia retpora
at Cradle Mt.
Nat’l Park, a
burnett moth
alighted on the
lichen
providing an
incredible
photo
opportunity
Coral
lichen
and
moth
Tasman
Peninsula Fire
Melaleuca
and
Eucalyptus
forest
on the
Tasman
Peninsula in
before and
after fire
photographs
taken just a
couple of
years apart
Trip Results
Trip results
46 localities
58 hosts
> 2,000 Miridae
Lake Saint Clair, Lake Saint Clair –
Cradle Mountain National Park