Not a bird but it still flies .....

To:	Steve Read <>
Subject:	Not a bird but it still flies .....
From:	Martin Butterfield <>
Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2019 22:44:18 +0000

I have not seen a single Christmas Beetle at Carwoola this year. No any Fiddle Beetles and only a couple of Flower Scarabs, both of which are usually very common on garden flowers.

Inverts generally are thin on the ground here except blowies and mosquitoes. Much flowering of E polyanthemos and E meliodora out this way, but I have no idea whether there is a good nectar flow.

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 09:40, Steve Read <> wrote:

Large numbers of Christmas Beetles in the bush around Mansfield, Victoria, where I have been this week. They were especially favouring (and almost defoliating) Eucalyptus polyanthemos.

Steve

From: Harvey Perkins <>
Sent: Friday, 4 January 2019 9:27 AM
To: Mark Clayton <>
Cc: Canberra Birds <>
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Not a bird but it still flies .....

I haven't noticed any locally, but judging by various invertebrate FaceBook sites they are certainly about in other regions.

On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 9:20 am Mark Clayton < wrote:

Morning all,

A post on Facebook from a banding colleague in northern NSW has me now
asking the same question - has anyone seen any Christmas Beetles this
year? To date I have not seen any and have put this down to the very dry
conditions we are having, and have had for a while. Anyone seen any in
the local area?

Mark

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