Category: Bees

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  OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!

  Author Annette Fraser-Dunn ◦ OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! My new bee hotel has a TENANT! I am a tad excited. My neighbour over the back fence called out because she thought I was having a seizure. I yelled back,… Continue reading

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  The Real Housebees of Berrinba

  Author Annette Fraser-Dunn ◦ Wow. It’s not all rainbows and unicorns and fluffy bunny slippers in Golden-browed Resin Bee society is it? At least not between two of my residents in Megachile Mansions. I was out there this morning and… Continue reading

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  And the flavour of the month goes to… Megachile aurifrons!

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ And the flavour of the month goes to… Megachile aurifrons! Well done Fronsy! There’s been some great pics… I didn’t get any 😅 In the first pic she seems to have small eyes and a weirdly… Continue reading

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  As the platypus season comes to an end…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ As the platypus season comes to an end, I’m still putting matching socks together… metaphorically of course (and coming up with sentences no one in the world has ever spoken before… 😆). So first pic is… Continue reading

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  After 6 years, I believe your bee is…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Six years… So I went back out for another go at getting a pic of the face of the big black Megachile (1st pic) I’d seen over the last few weeks but alas I fear her… Continue reading

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  Popping the caps off Eucalyptus platypus flowers like champagne corks…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ I have previously seen the Megachile canifrons (a resin bee) popping the caps off Eucalyptus platypus flowers like champagne corks to get to the fresh new pollen and nectar within, but it was so fast I… Continue reading

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  Megachile “asoc” bees

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Never have found out what these little ones are but this week has brought the annual emergence of the Megachile “asoc” bees (as I call ’em) in my BeeTown… I gotta point out here “asoc” is… Continue reading

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  face markings… like the 1980’s rock band eyeliner

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ So, kinda continuing on from my previous post of why European honey bees are detrimental to our gorgeous little native bees, well another reason is that a lot of our little natives truly are little… This… Continue reading

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  She wears it well…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ The first line from that song popped into my head (I am showing my age now)… I had nothing to do on this hot afternoon… Well, that was not quite true… I was just taking a… Continue reading

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  She knows the Euro has been following her…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ For those new to native bees, you may have noticed a slight disapproval, perhaps even a tinge of animosity towards feral European honeybees, and wondered what the problem is… Well, basically they’re an introduced species that… Continue reading

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  smaller than average little Amegilla…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ I don’t usually post banded Amegilla pics, but it’s not ‘cos I haven’t seen ’em, they’re in abundance here, but that’s the thing, so abundant that they’re just a bit common… Don’t get me wrong, I… Continue reading

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  bees do it…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ There I was, just minding my own business, with my trusty mobile phone… thinking I wouldn’t mind snapping a few native bees in the park today… And there they were… a couple of Lasioglossum (Homalictus) on… Continue reading