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a cuckoo wasp staking out her nestโฆ
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Meanwhile, back in BeeTown, a little potter wasp hasn’t even finished building her house, let alone moved in and started storing baby food yet, and she’s already got a cuckoo wasp staking out her nestโฆ Tough… Continue reading
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Euhesma โtayloriโ – part 2
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Back out bush, I have to put one last one on from last week’s pics, the bee I was actually searching for, my latest new bee discovery (Thanks Ken) Euhesma “taylori” ๐ Yeah, I know, it’s… Continue reading
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Euhesma โtayloriโ …
Author Gary Taylor โฆ I am so fickleโฆ ๐ First day off work since I found my new favourite (unknown) bee, the big fluffy golden Stenotritidae, possibly a new species, so I went back out bush hoping for some clues… Continue reading
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the call of nature
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Here she is, my favourite new bee for the year so farโฆ Isn’t she just gorgeousโฆ These girls are huge (and seriously loud in flight), and so golden and fluffyโฆ And when the light catches that… Continue reading
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a bit of bubblingโฆ
Author Gary Taylor โฆ A quick one before workโฆ and before I get into this weeks new bees… meanwhile, back at the ranch, with several species of Megachile nesting and the ever growing rubricata population still increasing, my BeeTown is… Continue reading
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The honey bee and the unopen lemon blossom
Author Koh Lin โฆ The European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera for the more sciencey among us) are a common sight among flowering plants. At this time of year in Australia, the citrus trees certainly attract their share of attention. Many… Continue reading
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just when you thought your day couldn’t get anyย worse
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Stuck on a Hakea with a spike through the wing, just when you thought your day couldn’t get any worse, some big (possible) predator looms in over youโฆ “Oh crapโฆ” ๐ Just a Euro honey bee… Continue reading
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Stop thief but too late…
Author Marc Newman โฆ This is Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) perhumilis on a Eucalyptus leaf… Hylaeus perhumilis bubbling male… Hylaeus perhumilis (female) concentrating nectar, not doing harm to anybody… Hylaeus perhumilis (female)… a Fly arrives on the scene to steal the nectar.… Continue reading
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Insignis and in healthโฆ
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Insignis and in healthโฆ ๐ Do you, Workshop Owner, take this spider to be your lawfully webbed companion..? ๐ I doโฆ and at the fear of sounding like an arachnid polygamist (or at least like I’ve… Continue reading
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I missed that first little happy dance and joy on her faceโฆ
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Just wanted to say thanks again Barb for the WADA membership, the gorgeous cards ๐ and of course the big parcel of roo jerky for Lupes ๐. I so wish I’d had my camera and caught… Continue reading
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His head stuck in a canโฆ
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Well here’s two things I’ve heard about, but in all the time I’ve spent out in the bush I’ve never actually encounteredโฆ ๐ So, doin’ our weekly bush run/road trip, whipping down a quiet little country… Continue reading
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suddenly I was set upon by a mob of ravenous wild bees after my toast!
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Here’s another one I mentioned seeing in the “new” bee season, Lasioglossum (Chilalictus), but the Hakea lissocarpha flowers are thick and she is small so I’m going to use some old pics of her for a… Continue reading