Atlas of Living Australia

 Atlas of Living Australia is a useful website which allows you to explore the flora and fauna around your neighbourhood.

The site provides information pages for each species reported in your local area and contains photos, descriptions, maps and observations.

To explore your local area simply:-

1. Click on ‘Species by location’ icon.

2. Click on ‘Explore your area’

3. In the ‘search box’ enter your postcode or street name plus state and postcode.

Tips: I found it useful to increase ‘the display your records in a 5 km radius to a 10 km radius.

I also fine-tuned  the location of the area by dragging the red marker icon on the Google satellite map to where I thought the school was located.

Within a 5km radius of the Longford Primary School a total of 299 different species of flora and fauna were listed. Within a 10 km radius a total of 831 different species of flora and fauna were listed.

I think looking at the number of species in the local area that  if the children continue to bring in the fauna they have discovered either at home or in the playground that I will need a bigger room to hold and look after their precious new found pets.

The Castiarina rectifasciata or the Jewel Beetle is a species of arthropod found near Longford Primary School.