The large leathery leaves and showy white blossoms of broad-leafed paperbarks trap the moist, warm air in a languid blanket over the wetlands, creating a perfect climate for frogs and myriads of small and delicate flying insects, and also for their predators - snakes dine on the frogs, and bats flutter precisely through the twilight to feast on mosquitoes. The wetlands are noisy - over the chorus of calling frogs, honeyeaters squabble endlessly over the paperbark flowers, barely stopping long enough to gorge themselves on the nectar. Corellas swing and pirouette on the branches of the tall eucalypts that fringe the wetlands, commenting vociferously on the proceedings below. By the end of the dry season, water is scarce and Pungalina's wetlands become an important resource and refuge for wildlife.