Author Koh Lin ◦ It’s either a little bee that looks like a little Crabronid wasp, or a little Crabronid wasp that looks like a little bee… It looked almost deceased, when I fished it out of the swimming pool…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Some times I wonder… who is lucky… the insect that I have rescued from the swimming pool… or me, having the opportunity to capture some closeup photos. Here I was, doing my usual ground maintenance, when…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I’ve mentioned in a few posts of the punch-ups and brawls that go on between males of the same species fighting over territory and how the different species seem to get along. And I’ll say straight…
Author Ken Walker ◦ Australia’s “Marsupial” bee — a world first. It is known that female bees carry mites on their body. While these mites are on the bee, they are in the non-feeding dormant stage called hypopial nymphs. Once…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Meanwhile, back at the ranch, while I was out galavanting around the countryside (tho’ admittedly well worth it 🙂), unbeknownst to me, a little bee that I have been chasing for nearly 6 years, has been…
Author Andrew Turner ◦ Since living in Central Australia, we have crossed paths with dingoes many times… and grown very fond of the Canis dingo (formerly Canis lupus dingo). We learnt about dingoes when we saw the “dog fence” at…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Who hasn’t heard about Alice Springs… it is a wild place… and home to more then just art and culture… it is home to many creatures big and small… Ok… we may not have the biggest…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ The perfect wasp. So after first spotting this gorgeous little creature, not knowing what it was but seriously disappointed at not getting a pic, 🙁 despite the wind and cloud, I drove the 130 Km ’round…
Author Koh Lin ◦ I love seeing large moths… and in particular the beautiful Convolvulus Hawk Moth (scientific classification Agrius convolvuli). I stumbled across this specimen on one of my daily working rounds in Alice Springs… it was just lying…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ A quick follow up on yesterdays post on the smallest bee I’ve ever seen. I was asked about the flower and something for scale… The flower is Eremaea beaufortioides, a native only found in a comparatively…