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Male multi-tasking…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Male Megachile (Eutricharaea), macularis I’d reckon. Quick little buggers, this guy wasn’t being very cooperative at the start, but it wasn’t long before he too packed it in due to the heat and went and had… Continue reading
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Secrets in my garden…
Author Koh Lin ◦ As a well known phrase from a late 1960’s popular American television sitcom… “I see nothing!” That was me… and I suspect a lot of other people. With the growing interest in the natural world around… Continue reading
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Welcoming the New Year…
It has become a little tradition here at Ausemade when we look forward to the New Year and we talk about our Western Bowerbird that still has his bower in our backyard… after a little reminder popped up in our… Continue reading
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a penthouse with a view…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Who would have known… that from the first row of single bedroom units — I guess you could call these the ground floor units — an apartment block would be built above them. I might have… Continue reading
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the first bubble she threw up
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Here’s something you don’t see too often, gotta say I’ve never seen it before… Not the bee, Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) vittatifrons, they’re probably the most abundant native bee here in midwest WA, and not the “bubbling”, I’ve… Continue reading
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Clam shrimps
Author Marc Newman ◦ Part 3 – Clam shrimps in the Gnammas When I first met Dr Carol Booth, who at the time was editor of Wildlife Australia Magazine, she lived on a property at Greenlands, which is about 10… Continue reading
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Life in the Gnammas…
Author Marc Newman ◦ Part 2 – Life in the Gnammas I went to visit the gnammas in Girraween National Park after the recent rains and although I didn’t find a crustacean — I was hoping to find a clam… Continue reading
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Gnammas in the Granite Belt
Author Marc Newman ◦ Part 1 – Gnammas in the Granite Belt, Queensland Gnammas are rock pools found mostly on relatively level outcrops of granite, but also on other types of rocks. It is an Aboriginal name from Western Australia… Continue reading
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Bubbling…
Author Cassidy Taylor This is an interesting photo and video of what is a tiny native bee (Lasioglossum sp). It has what appears to be a water bubble on its mouth and it moves it’s tongue in and out of… Continue reading
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“warts and all”
Author Ken Walker ◦ I’m glad you enjoyed the 80 stack single image from Gary Taylor’s bee. My research work occurs mainly in the world of under the microscope and I am privileged to see animals (in this case bees)… Continue reading
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I noticed some debris hanging out of one of the nests
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Contribution Ken Walker Ok, so here’s an oddity… I went to check on my bees… 1st pic, just to set the scene, one of the apartment blocks in my BeeTown showing eight Meroglossa rubricata in their… Continue reading
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Everyone loves a platypus…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Everyone loves a platypus… Megachile canifrons (is nesting in my BeeTown only a few metres away), Meroglossa rubricata 3rd pic (also nesting in my BeeTown), Lasioglossum (Chililictus) 4th pic female, 5th pic male (they’re ground nesters… Continue reading