Category: Bees
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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
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she seems to favour the Eucalypts…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ This little cutie, Hylaeus (Rhodohylaeus) proximus, is another one of the “usual culprits” I often see on my bee hunts. And although I’ve seen her on many different types of plants (Hakeas, Banksias, Grevilleas, Melaleucas…) she… Continue reading
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running out of room to add new apartments…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Still in BeeTown, the Meroglossa rubricata population just keeps growing… So, running out of room to add new apartments without blocking out existing ones… gotta respect your existing tenants 😃…imagine finding your dream home, the perfect… Continue reading
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gorgeous girl, with personality
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I mentioned in a post a week or so back that in 1000 odd K’s of bush driving on the hunt for new bees (in horrendous weather) I’d seen nothing, just the “usual culprits”… Boring for… Continue reading
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I needed the buzz of a New Bee fix…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Clocked up about 1000 K’s in the last 2-3 weeks in the hunt for new bees in Midwest WA. It’s either been stinkin’ hot (40+) and blowing it’s guts out (hopeless for macro) or stinkin’ hot… Continue reading
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multicrystaline polyinverted refractionism…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Still in BeeTown, Meroglossa rubricata… these bees are unlike any other bee I’ve ever studied over the years. They don’t try to make and “cap off” as many nests as they can and die after 4… Continue reading
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Aunty Jack…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I often see posts of wasps (or signs of them) inhabiting bee hotels and people asking if they’re a problem… Basic answer, no… If you see a wasp making a nest in your bee hotel it’s… Continue reading
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the outlaw cowboys…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ What a battle… Meroglossa rubricata versus Megachile “asoc” bee. Both very staunch little bees, I’ve seen rubricata (or “Ruby” as I call her) take on bees several times her size and will regularly chase Euro honeybees… Continue reading
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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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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