The Yellowish Sedge Skipper

The Yellowish Sedge Skipper was last seen in Adelaide in 1985. Green Adelaide have been working with Entosearch to rewild the butterfly to sites where Gahnia filum (Chaffy Saw Sedge) provides vital habitat.

Funded by a Green Adelaide Grassroots Grant, we have been working cooperatively with Royal Adelaide Golf Club, Grange Golf Club and Kooyonga Golf Club to create habitat connectivity between our courses. 

As part of part of this project, Yellowish Sedge Skipper caterpillars were released on Tuesday this week in a remnant wetland area of Royal Adelaide Golf Club, as well as a few other areas on course. This is the first time there has been a caterpillar release at a golf course and we look forward to more releases at the other clubs, as well as supporting the future success of this rewilding project.

The Coastal Invertebrate study has been progressing well. As well as our club, there are four other sites for the study: Aldinga Conservation Park, Southport at Port Noarlunga, Tennyson Dunes and Grange Golf Club.

Insects are collected in traps and in monthly sweeps at various locations on all five sites. In the first month of the study – September/October – Glenelg Golf Club had the most diversity of insect species across all sites. In the second month – October/November – Glenelg Golf Club had the third highest diversity. It is expected that the trend of higher diversity in the parks, compared to Glenelg Golf Club (and other sites), will continue for the rest of the survey. 

You can read more about these projects and other environmental projects we have been working on in Turfgrass Magazine – page 54 of the navigation: https://issuu.com/agcsa/docs/atm23.6_e-book