Eco Action

10/06/2026

Inviting all Young Nature Lovers!
Join us on Saturday 13th June – 1pm to 2pm for a Native Bees Workshop at Byford Library. Learn about some of the 2000+ species of Native Australian Bees, make and decorate your own native bee habitat to take home :)

Please call the library to book in advance.

22/05/2026

🦋🐝🦂🦎🪲Bring the Kids!🕷️🐍🐞🐌🐛
Join us for fun and educational Eco Rock Art session at Byford Library on Saturday 6th June – 1pm to 2pm!

You will be able to meet, learn about and interact with a variety of amazing creatures!
Then you can draw them on river rocks under the guidance of an experienced artist.

While the kids are having fun, they will expand their knowledge of the natural world, hone their observational skills and create memories to take home.

11/05/2026

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Recently Eris from EcoAction was on Couch TV introducing one of our newest crew members - Pip - the cutest snake on the planet! Sorry I know I am biased, but I can’t help it! Look at him! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

https://youtu.be/WTcNPAv8NLU?t=1342

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10/05/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers!

To the amazing human super-mums, raising a family with endless love and care, and often managing work and social commitments!

To the mummy huntsmen spiders who stay hungry to protect their young- they do not leave the side of their eggs even to catch food!

To the giant burrowing cockroach mums, giving live birth to their babies and feeding them for months!

To the Raven mums who will feed their young even when they are injured!

To the bobtails mothers giving birth to babies third of their own size!

To the Dawsons Burrowing Bee mums who do everything themselves - from digging their burrow to collecting nectar and laying eggs, all for their offspring!

We love you, appreciate you and wish you absolutely wonderful day!
Today and every day!

10/05/2026

What a fantastic Saturday afternoon! Huge thank you to the Town_of_Claremont for putting together this awesome event! The stage performance was great! We met so many amazing people, made many new friends, helped build so many bee hotels!
Children had so much fun! We heard that on the nature walk they even saw a Quenda 🙂
At our stalls they met the friendly Minibeasts, learned about the native bees and built habitats for them. It was heart warming to meet some kids who have already had the Minibeasts incursion at their school, and find out that they have retained so much information!
We encountered some outstanding young artists who turned their native bee hotels and coloring-in sheets into amazing pieces of art!
We really enjoyed working alongside the enthusiastic crew from the City, the volunteers, the fabulous Amy with her reptiles, the St John’s staff, The Perth Observatory and all other wonderful people who worked hard to make this a success!

08/05/2026

Australia is truly the land of opportunity for scientists! There are new species discovered all the time! What an interesting creature!

A new species of assassin bug has been discovered in a national park on the fringes of Darwin city.

Oxford Brookes University researchers, made the discovery at Charles Darwin National Park.

They’ve named it 'Larrakia Feather-legged Assassin' or the 'Ptilocnemus larrakia', after the traditional owners of the land where it was found.

“It’s wonderful in itself to have discovered a new species, but as a proud Australian, it has been made even more special by receiving permission to name the species in honour of the Larrakia people” says Dr Matthew Bulbert, one of the researchers involved in the discovery.

The area where the new assassin species was discovered had been surveyed many times, and yet the insect remained hidden - until recently.

“They turn up when they want to,” says PhD student Daniel Barley.

“We had been searching for weeks and found nothing. Then, on the way out of the park, I stopped at a small patch of woodland. We shook out the last bag of leaf litter, and this new species appeared.”

Feather-legged assassin bugs belong to one of the oldest groups of assassin bugs. Their ancestors arrived in Australia long ago and evolved into a unique species found nowhere else in the world.

Assassin bugs are rare, and can go decades without being seen.

A specimen of the newly discovered Larrakia Feather-legged Assassin is temporarily being held in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History alongside the original type specimen discovered nearly two centuries earlier, but will eventually return to Australia to appear in the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

“This exciting discovery highlights how much there is still to learn about Australia’s insect biodiversity. Nearly 186 years after the first species in this genus was discovered, scientists are still finding new members of this ancient lineage, sometimes in places thought to be well explored.” says Dr Barley.

✍️Mahi Garbas

07/05/2026

Bring the whole family! Join us for an amazingly entertaining and meaningful Saturday Afternoon at Lake Claremont!
Eco Action will be bringing a bunch of beautiful and friendly invertebrates, kids will be building and decorating bee habitats to take home, there will be nature walks, friendly snakes and much more!

02/05/2026

Just a follow up-up on the post about the Feather Horned Beetles (Rhipicera carinata), here is the female from the same species, found at the same place where the male was. She is also quite a pretty beetle, but her antennas are way less “feathery”. I have included the male’s antennas in the post for comparison. This species was properly described in 2013, just 13 years ago, and its biology is not studied much.

01/05/2026

Huge thanks to Rossmoyne SHS for inviting us! It was a pleasure and a privilege to share the afternoon with the future generation of wonderful young people, scientists, wildlife advocates and community leaders currently participating in the Bush Rangers program at Rossmoyne SHS. It was a pleasure spending time with their amazing Leaders who have been working hard for years to make this program totally outstanding.

27/04/2026

Wherever you go in Perth, in any remnants of native bush, you can find real wonders of nature.
This beautiful boy beetle has great looks and lovely nature, allowing for a spontaneous photo session :) Yes, he is a boy, the girls lack the impressive antennas.
Our handsome friend is a Feather-horned beetle, from the species Rhipicera carinata, native to WA.
He showed up his wings and even munched on some pollen.
Adults only live for around 20 days, the boys use their antennas to “sniff out” the females, as their main focus is the continuation of the species. They stick to a pollen and nectar diet, while their larvae munch on Cicada nymphs (cicada nymphs live in the ground and suck sap from plant roots).

Very little is known about their larval stages. However, based on related species overseas, it’s believed they may spend 12–18 months underground, possibly passing through two distinct and very different larval phases as they grow.

🌳 Even the smallest remnant of native bush is precious🌳. It’s disheartening to see so much lost each day to development, fire, and industry—especially when we still know so little about remarkable species like this one. Many unique, endemic species may disappear before we even discover them.

Every day, going to work, we are thankful to our customers for giving us the opportunity to spread the knowledge about the little creatures, and share our love for them with kids and adults alike.
We don’t preach. We help young people fall in love with nature. We just let them experience some of what we used to experience as kids. And maybe, 🪴maybe, they will care to protect at least some of those remnants of bushland, and work to recreate what we have lost in parks and verge gardens. 🪴