The Wanderer, or Monarch, Butterfly introduced to Copley in the Northern Flinders Ranges by a local lepidopterist.
Wanderer Butterfly
Salty Ice Plant
The edible Salty Ice Plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, has distinct glistening glands seen here on the banks of a flooded creek bed near Marree.
Samphire
Salt Heliotrope
Heliotropium curassavicum, Salt Heliotrope, is native to the Americas and growing prolifically along the damp banks of Copley Retention Dam in the Northern Flinders Ranges.
Harlequin Mistletoe
Mistletoe is a stem parasite seen throughout the Flinders Ranges. The sticky seeds are deposited on branches by the Mistletoe Bird and other small birds, where they germinate and attach to the sap wood of the host plant, in this case Acacia Victoriae.
Acacia Victoriae seeding
Acacia victoriae is prolific in the Flinders Ranges, seeding profusely following summer. The seeds can be ground into an edible flour.
Black Kite
The distinctive shape of a Black Kite with forked tail, circling over Copley Retention Dam.
Insect eggs on Redgum
Blue-banded Bee
Native Amegilla bee, Flinders Ranges.
Aquatic grass
