![Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Fadden, ACT - Yesterday by Mike](https://cdn.naturemapr.org/api/sightings/4723396/images/1?width=300&height=300 "Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Fadden, ACT - Yesterday by Mike")
![Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Fadden, ACT - Yesterday by Mike](https://cdn.naturemapr.org/api/sightings/4723363/images/1?width=300&height=300 "Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Fadden, ACT - Yesterday by Mike")
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debhart
wrote:
47 min ago
Thanks for the id @Teresa Its still lives on my fence! I also had some fruiting bodies growing in the grass that looked similar.
Physarum sp. (genus)
DPRees125
wrote:
1 hr ago
These two images are of the same moth which moved about. the first was taken at an angle , being higher than me.
Ectropis (genus)
Teresa
wrote:
1 hr ago
Yes Lisa, I actually meant to click on species rather than T.terrestris. Hoping Heino has a better idea than me.
Thelephora terrestris
Mike
wrote:
2 hrs ago
Cootamundra wattle is a declared pest plant so I don't see that the Government is cultivating them; maybe just ignoring them because of lack of resources. I don't worry too much about them in Isaacs/Mugga because there is a lack of other natives.
Acacia baileyana
waltraud
wrote:
2 hrs ago
Mike
I do follow up monitoring all the time preferably 1 or 2 years after tackling parent plants - I monitor treated sites and follow up since over ten years because the seeds survive a long time in the soil seed bank. I found that less and less germinate, however, we can't win since Government cultivate Cootamundra wattles nearby in areas surrounding Mt Majura nature reserve, such as on an offset site block 578 abutting nature reserve to the northeast, see https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/4723338, or along the Fed Highway, or at Epic....
I do follow up monitoring all the time preferably 1 or 2 years after tackling parent plants - I monitor treated sites and follow up since over ten years because the seeds survive a long time in the soil seed bank. I found that less and less germinate, however, we can't win since Government cultivate Cootamundra wattles nearby in areas surrounding Mt Majura nature reserve, such as on an offset site block 578 abutting nature reserve to the northeast, see https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/4723338, or along the Fed Highway, or at Epic....
Acacia baileyana
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