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Spiky grubs, tiny bats and the giant stinging tree

Spiky grubs, tiny bats and the giant stinging tree

by Paula Peeters | May 17, 2021 | Tales of science

Meet the punk caterpillar who’s willing to take on some of Australia’s most fearsome plants (the Gympie Stinger and Shiny-leaved Stinging Tree), and spends part of its life masquerading as a bat. In recent years it’s also begun to devour the Giant...
Enter the jungle – a portrait of wet rainforest

Enter the jungle – a portrait of wet rainforest

by Paula Peeters | Aug 26, 2015 | Forest portraits, Wildlife illustration

I explored my first rainforests when I was 14 years old and the experience probably changed my life. On a cold autumn morning at Binna Burra, I awaited the dawn bird walk, an enormous pair of very unsophisticated binoculars slung around my neck. Dingoes were howling...

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