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she said I could call her “June”
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Another little bee I met cruisin’ the Banksiasโฆ (she said I could call her “June”โฆ yeah, I know! Weirdโฆ it’s normally only the guys that like to give themselves names and as you know it’s usually… Continue reading
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Elizabeth Bay
Author Koh Lin โฆ 1981 I met you for a brief moment when our path’s crossedโฆ a pleasurable repose and when you passed you left behind for those who cared an image, a memory, a part of your time that… Continue reading
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With the shortening of the days
Author Gary Taylor โฆ With the shortening of the days comes the flowering of the Banksias, and with them a whole new array of little native bees. And I make the point of saying “little” bees ‘cos apart from being… Continue reading
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Is your glass half full or half empty?
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Gorgeous little male Megachile on a Banksia, love the big fluffy modified fore tarsiโฆ (Tarsi is just the scientific word for the last major segment of an insect’s legs, in human terms ‘hind tarsi’ would be… Continue reading
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she seems to favour the Eucalyptsโฆ
Author Gary Taylor โฆ This little cutie, Hylaeus (Rhodohylaeus) proximus, is another one of the “usual culprits” I often see on my bee hunts. And although I’ve seen her on many different types of plants (Hakeas, Banksias, Grevilleas, Melaleucasโฆ) she… Continue reading
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running out of room to add new apartments…
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Still in BeeTown, the Meroglossa rubricata population just keeps growingโฆ So, running out of room to add new apartments without blocking out existing onesโฆ gotta respect your existing tenants ๐โฆimagine finding your dream home, the perfect… Continue reading
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not quite the surfโฆ Lifeguard
Author Koh Lin โฆ After my umpteenth rescue, it appeared to me that I was like a surf lifesaver, except without the surfboard, or the surf… ok so there was no beach, and it was just a swimming pool… so… Continue reading
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Strike a pose
Author Dorothy L. โฆ First I have to find the right rock… Action replay… Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) ยฉ Dorothy Latimer Check out more blogs and contribution by Dorothy L. Continue reading
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gorgeous girl, with personality
Author Gary Taylor โฆ I mentioned in a post a week or so back that in 1000 odd K’s of bush driving on the hunt for new bees (in horrendous weather) I’d seen nothing, just the “usual culprits”โฆ Boring for… Continue reading
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I needed the buzz of a New Bee fixโฆ
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Clocked up about 1000 K’s in the last 2-3 weeks in the hunt for new bees in Midwest WA. It’s either been stinkin’ hot (40+) and blowing it’s guts out (hopeless for macro) or stinkin’ hot… Continue reading
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Let us prey…
Author Koh Lin โฆ I would love to tell you a tale… not any tail… in fact I am not sure what lizard tail this is, but I am thinking that the lizard got away by the skin of it’s… Continue reading
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multicrystaline polyinverted refractionism…
Author Gary Taylor โฆ Still in BeeTown, Meroglossa rubricata… these bees are unlike any other bee I’ve ever studied over the years. They don’t try to make and “cap off” as many nests as they can and die after 4… Continue reading