CCR004, Sleepy Hollow Traditional Geocache
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Darwin's first Power Trail! Or the Croker Crew Ramble or the Casuarina Coastal Reserve?
Welcome to parts of the Coastal Reserve that most people never see!
The Casuarina Coastal Reserve
This Reserve protects about 1500ha of coastal habitats between the estuaries of Rapid Creek and Buffalo Creek, in the Darwin area. It includes 8 km of sandy beaches, dramatic cliffs and shady casuarina trees. Behind the dunes lie typical Top End coastal plant communities including patches of woodlands, monsoon forests, mangroves and paperbarks.
I hope you brought along some insect repellant!
Mosquitoes are small, slender bodied, two winged flies belonging to the family Culicidae. They differ from all other flies in having a prominent proboscis or feeding tube projecting from the front of the head.
A pair of sensory palps is on either side of the proboscis. In Anopheles species the palps are as long as the proboscis, but in the females of most other species the palps are considerably shorter. The palps of the male mosquito are usually as long as the proboscis and are often more hairy and sometimes ornate. The males also have more bushy antennae when compared with the sparse antennae of the female.
The body and wings of mosquitoes are clothed in scales. Colour, size, shape, and arrangement of the scales are used to identify the different species of mosquitoes. In the Northern Territory there are approximately 100 different species of mosquitoes. Of these only about 40 species are known to bite people and only about 20 species occur in numbers large enough to cause pest problems.
No room for swaps and don't forget to bring a pen!
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