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Noosa & District Landcare Group Noosa & District Conservation & Sustainability Landcare Group Inside this issue: March 2012 Autumn Issue Butterfly Surprise 2 Flash flooding diverts Green Army flood recovery team President’s Report 3 Committee & Staff Wish List 4 Wanted: Any Old Iron Calendar of Events 5 Community Nature Conservation Program 6 News Community Nature Conservation Program 7 News Waterwatch: Green 8 Army Training Day New Waterwatcher Gabion Making 9 A GREEN Army flood recovery project The Green Army participants helped to Workshop designed to assist with ongoing salvage lengths of timber that had drifted rehabilitation after the devastating 2011 from the local timber yard to Cooroora Fishbone Fern floods in South-East Queensland, was Park and removed debris that had littered 10 Eradication at Teewah diverted for two days from its planned roads and park areas. activities. Due to recent flash flooding in Pomona, Cooran and Cooroy, the Green Phillip Moran, Natural Resource Manager Our Local Wasps 11 Army was called to action. of Noosa and District Landcare, thanked Junior Landcare Grants Anne and the troops, saying that the Dr Anne Winning, Regional Manager in participants worked hard and enjoyed Kids’ Corner 12 Nambour for the Department of helping the local community in its time of Employment, Economic Development and need, and the locals were very appreciative Crossword: Sunshine 13 Coast Place Names Innovation (DEEDI) was also flood affected of their assistance. around her own home, but once she saw The Queensland Green Army is funded by Local Business Ads 14 news reports on the weekend of 25-26 February, she decided that her first call on the Queensland Government‟s Skilling Monday morning was to ask Noosa and Queenslanders for Work initiative. I Have a Weber!!! 15 District Landcare if they could divert their The Noisy Miner Bird Green Army team to assist. For more information on the Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative, visit “Once reports started coming through PO Box 278 www.employment.qld.gov.au or call Pomona Qld 4568 about the mass of rainwater that hit the 1300 369 925. Station Street Pomona area from Friday night onwards, Pomona Qld 4568 which included around 180mm of rain Media contact: DEEDI (07) 3247 5844. Phone: 07 5485 2468 falling in just over an hour,” said Dr Fax: 07 5485 0413 Winning, “I could see there was a real Noosa and District Landcare Group: E-mail: [email protected] immediate need.” Phillip Moran (07) 5485 2155. Web: www.noosalandcare.org This newsletter is printed on 100% recycled paper Noosa & District Landcare Group Page 2 Butterfly Surprise - Gemma Wright THE first Community Nature Conservation Program working bee in Cooroora Park, Pomona for 2012 beheld a beautiful butterfly surprise. In the green grass, lay a beautiful green Macleay's Swallowtail butterfly. It was dead but still marvellous and it caught the eye of young bushcarer, Molly Maddison. Molly collected the specimen and took it home. Luckily for Molly, and for us, Molly‟s family took an interest in the butterfly also, and soon a butterfly expert was also excited about the green and black beauty. Macleay's Swallowtail (Graphium macleayanum) is a beautiful emerald green butterfly with broad brown wing margins and long tails on the hind wings. The wingspan size varies from 53mm for the male to 59mm for the female. They are active butterflies and rarely settle, fluttering in the canopy or in sunlit shafts lower down. The fully grown caterpillar is pale green with faint whitish spots. It is humped at the thorax, which carries a pair of short tubercules at the widest point. The body tapers towards the head and tail. As with all Our butterfly surprise Papilioninae, there is an extrusible soft, fleshy, orange- for frogs including the Great Barred Frog. According coloured organ behind the head, which emits foul- to CSIRO alumni and renowned entomologist Don smelling odours as a means of defence against predators Sands, Macleay‟s Swallowtail is not a threatened species, and parasitoids (Hoskins. A, learnaboutbutterflies.com, but its distribution is usually found at an altitude of 2012). 200m. The caterpillars of Macleay's Swallowtail have adapted There is, however, plentiful food including Cryptocaria to feed on a variety of plants including the introduced glaucescens and Camphor laurel in the park. As for its Camphor Laurel (Cinnamomum camphora). The adults distribution, the sighting has been recorded with Don also feed from flowers such as Leptospermum, Lantana, Sands and I look forward to learning more about its some Cryptocarya species and Buddleia species. elevation distribution range. Males have been known to Cooroora Park is located on the eastern side of congregate around hilltops, where they can be seen Pomona at an elevation of approximately 99 metres. defending their territory from rival males and courting The park hosts some brilliant subtropical plant passing females. Either way, we‟ll be keeping our eyes communities (Endangered Regional Ecosystem 12.3.1) peeled for more Macleay's Swallowtail butterflies in the and its riparian zone has proven to be valuable habitat area. Classification Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Papilionidae Genus: Graphium Species: macleayanus Source: http://www.ozanimals.com/ < Insect/Macleay%27s-Swallowtail/ Graphium/macleayanus.html Molly at Cooroora Park March 2012 Page 3 Management Committee President’s Report by George Kootoofa George Kootoofa President Dr John Cronin Treasurer Paul Steels Secretary Luke Barrowcliffe Committee Craig O‟Hara Committee Fiona Waterhouse Committee Wayne Morris Committee Welcome to our first newsletter for 2012. And what Phil Moran Committee (Operational) a start to the year it is been, very wet with some harrowing stories from many local people. The Green Army assisted with some cleaning up following the recent flash flooding event in the Noosa Staff hinterland in late February, as described on our front page. They removed debris and materials from Phil Moran Natural Resource Manager Cooroora Park and helped some residents pick up Damien Morley Nurseries Manager/ their fences and locate missing yard items. Contracts If you haven‟t already noticed, Noosa Landcare has a Paul Sprecher Contracts Manager „new look‟ website. We hope this will be easier to navigate and new information will be added over Anita Russell Waterwatch Co-ordinator & time. There is also Twitter and Facebook – „like‟ us Program Support Officer and become our friends. If you have any feedback or Gemma Wright Community Nature Conser- suggestions on content for our website please email vation Co-ordinator [email protected] with your comments. Vanessa Moscato Project Support Officer There is still much going on as always – community Lyn Harm Greenhouse (Retail Nursery) tree plants, school talks, workshops ... Melvina Osborne Futures Centre Nursery In March Anita Russell, co-ordinator of Noosa Waterwatch, delivered a water quality monitoring Catrina Samson Futures Centre Nursery workshop to over 30 people with a great line up of Darren Bardin NRM Crew speakers. Gemma Wright, co-ordinator of the Community Nature Conservation program, delivered Dylan D‟angio NRM Crew a talk to Noosa Parks Association. Refer to our Charlie Sparks NRM Crew Calendar of Events on page 5 to see other Aaron Brunton NRM Crew workshops and events coming up. Aimee Roil NRM Crew Phil Moran continues to represent the group at a large number of meetings, events and functions. Peter Hewston NRM Crew Most are undertaken outside of work hours in a Ross Marks NRM Crew voluntary capacity. On top of a day in the office, this is a gruelling workload, so we tip our hat to Phil‟s Chelsea Greensill Nursery/Community Nature dedication in keeping the Noosa Landcare brand alive Conservation Officer and well. Thank you also to the management team Colin McDonald Green Army Supervisor and project officers who organise the work which Joe Petrie Green Army Supervisor flows on from this and the crews who implement that work on the ground. Margie Cosgrave Administration Assistant The next time I write to you I will be travelling Chris Cadogan Administration Officer around Europe. Starting in Turkey I will make my Kim Maddison Administration Manager way to Croatia, Hungary, Germany, France, Scotland, England and Wales before flying home in late July. Stay tuned for tales from „George‟s Junket.‟ Queries for the President during that time can be directed to The Secretary Paul Steels, by contacting Administration on 07 5485 2468 or emailing [email protected]. March 2012 Page 4 WANTED: Any old iron, any old iron ... By Lyn Harm, on behalf of the Showcase Garden Committee Members Wish List PROGRESS on our „Showcase Garden‟ project is well on its way Do you have any of the items now – the newly constructed pergola commanding the interest below in your home or garage, of all who pass by. Our original plan for this space incorporated which you‟d be more than happy a couple of pieces of artwork on plinths. Ideally one would commission an artist for this project, but as our budget is to get rid of? restricted we have decided to pool our „considerable‟ individual talents and design a piece (or two) ourselves. The theme of the If so - we‟d love to adopt them! sculpture will be „garden‟ or „work tools‟, recognising the efforts Please call us, post or drop the of the humble gardener in his quest to beautify his surroundings. items into our office (contact This is where we need your help. Have you any old bits and details are on the front page). pieces of garden tools around the place that you want to Thank you - we look forward to dispose of? Well ... acknowledging your kind WE WANT YOUR JUNK! contribution in our next Digging forks, shovels, rakes, hedge trimmers, picks, mattocks, newsletter. bits from old lawn mowers or just some interesting pieces of old metal junk; the more rusted the better! In fact, if it isn‟t rusting it would probably be an unsuitable metal for welding.
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