Category: Australia
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Bird Watching at the Beanie Festival 2023
Alice Springs Beanie Festival Author Koh Lin ◦ Wow… the Alice Springs Beanie Festival 2023 has done it again… known as the Beanie Centre of the world, the iconic festival event that brings beanies from around Australia and also from… Continue reading
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Touring the Red Centre Way with Puppy Love…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Wow… it was amazing when we won “The Love of your Best Friend” award, and we know our birth mother Marilyn Hunter, who lovingly crafted us for the Alice Springs Beanie Festival, was equally thrilled. You… Continue reading
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Changing the rules again…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Meroglossa rubricata, part 3, Changing the rules again… Ruby doesn’t always just take her love to town, sometimes the party continues on back at her place 😃 Righto, I gotta say straight up, perhaps this is… Continue reading
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the young emerge
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Righto, Meroglossa rubricata part 2, The young emerge* (*see footnote 😃)… But before I start, a couple of rhetorical questions, Do you have a dog or cat or other pet and can you tell what it’s… Continue reading
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Becoming a widow…
Author Koh Lin ◦ I was engulfed by a wave of sadness when I came into work (after the weekend break). It had been a reasonable pleasant weekend for me, and although I knew the end was near, I was… Continue reading
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She lives on in her chosen nest protecting the family she’s raising
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Still in BeeTown and back to Meroglossa rubricata, to me the most fascinating of all bees… As I’ve mentioned before, they not only communicate to each other with their own “language” of buzz like vibrations, unlike… Continue reading
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suddenly something bigger came torpedoing out of the nest…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Meroglossa rubricata, the bees in my previous post that seemed to be communicating to each other with short and quiet but audible little buzz vibrations. 😃 In that post I half joked that I was becoming… Continue reading
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It was all over in three frames
Author Dorothy L. ◦ We were all getting along nicely, when suddenly the Singing Honeyeater decided it wasn’t getting enough attention. The Singing Honeyeater lashed out at the Hooded Robin and being female, she wasn’t putting up with it. It… Continue reading
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In the folds of the Platypus buds
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Rare footage of native bees attacking a flower wasp! 😃 Nah, only joking, it’s just a mid day siesta… Thyreus waroonensis (Waroona Cuckoo bee), flower wasp and Lipotriches (Austranomia) australica all having a snooze together, tucked… Continue reading
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she said I could call her “June”
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Another little bee I met cruisin’ the Banksias… (she said I could call her “June”… yeah, I know! Weird… 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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With the shortening of the days
Author Gary Taylor ◦ 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 ◦ Gorgeous little male Megachile on a Banksia, love the big fluffy modified fore tarsi… (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