Flowering Yellow Boxes - a disappointment

[Mark Clayton <>]

In my time working with CSIRO Wildlife in the mid 1970's in the Eden woodchip concession areas we found that Silvertop Ash was not a very attractive tree for birds or mammals as it is usually found on the poorer soils. I am not sure how good it was for insects.

Mark

On 1/11/2019 9:01 pm, Martin Butterfield wrote:

I suspect a similar situation is applying to the Silvertop Ash (Eucalyptus sieberii) om the coast.

Martin Butterfield

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On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 17:39, Michael Lenz <> wrote:

Yesterday Nick Nicholls and I visited sites around Gundaroo. Several Yellow Boxes were in flower. Normally, the flowering trees would attract many insects and many birds, notably honeyeaters. But this time only few insects were present (albeit this may have been more a sign of the dire drought conditions), and birds did not visit the flowers, although many White-plumed Honeyeaters, some Noisy Friarbirds and White-browed Woodswallows were present. It seemed the flowers were poor in nectar, an assessment supported by some beekeepers.

Michael Lenz

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