Tuesday 13th March

This is a new foray site for the QMS. Situated on the north side of Brisbane, Murrumba Downs promises to be an interesting site with a variety of habitats, ranging from dry Eucalypt forest to pockets of rainforest and mangroves. For more details, go to our Calendar of Events.

The QMS Christmas party! Bring a plate of your favourite Christmas goodies to share and, if you wish, wear festive attire! Photographic and Art and Craft Display It’s not so much a competition, as a display of wondrous things you have seen or created. You are invited to contribute your 3 best photos for this…

Diana Leemon will speak on “Fungi as bio-control agents”. Members will present foray reports on Ravensbourne, Linda Garrett, Springbrook update and the Polypore workshop, followed by supper. Tuesday 14th August at 7pm at the F. M.Bailey Room, Qld Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens.

The 28-30th March Weekend foray to Ravensbourne has been cancelled due to the exceptionally dry weather and the resulting lack of fungal growth. Ravensbourne National Park is situated on a spur of the Great Dividing Range between Toowoomba and Esk. The park contains remnants of rainforest and wet eucalypt forest along the slopes of the…

School Holiday Activity: The ENVIRO DETECTIVES are back at the Cubberla Witton Catchments Network Centre! Enviro Detectives Tristan Truffle and Pixie Cap invite all keen young forensic scientists to investigate the secretive world of mushrooms. They’ll have a closer look at witches’ butter and fairy rings, examine spores, figure out how the fungi cap got…

A reminder: We’ll be returning to the Bioblitz sites 10.00am Sunday 11th March to 10.00am Tuesday 13th March Prof. Roger Kitching will again be setting up light traps the night before, so there will already be some moths to look at on the Sunday morning. More details can be found on the website