Author Gary Taylor ◦ 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” 😄 Yeah, I know, it’s…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I am so fickle… 😆 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…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Here she is, my favourite new bee for the year so far… Isn’t she just gorgeous… These girls are huge (and seriously loud in flight), and so golden and fluffy… And when the light catches that…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ A quick one before work… 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…
Author Koh Lin ◦ 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…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ 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 you… “Oh crap…” 😆 Just a Euro honey bee…
Author Marc Newman ◦ 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.…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Insignis and in health… 😄 Do you, Workshop Owner, take this spider to be your lawfully webbed companion..? 😅 I do… and at the fear of sounding like an arachnid polygamist (or at least like I’ve…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Just wanted to say thanks again Barb for the WADA membership, the gorgeous cards 💕 and of course the big parcel of roo jerky for Lupes 💕. I so wish I’d had my camera and caught…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ 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 encountered… 😃 So, doin’ our weekly bush run/road trip, whipping down a quiet little country…