Category: Bees
-
Bubbling…
Author Cassidy Taylor This is an interesting photo and video of what is a tiny native bee (Lasioglossum sp). It has what appears to be a water bubble on its mouth and it moves it’s tongue in and out of… Continue reading
-
“warts and all”
Author Ken Walker ◦ I’m glad you enjoyed the 80 stack single image from Gary Taylor’s bee. My research work occurs mainly in the world of under the microscope and I am privileged to see animals (in this case bees)… Continue reading
-
I noticed some debris hanging out of one of the nests
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Contribution Ken Walker Ok, so here’s an oddity… I went to check on my bees… 1st pic, just to set the scene, one of the apartment blocks in my BeeTown showing eight Meroglossa rubricata in their… Continue reading
-
Everyone loves a platypus…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Everyone loves a platypus… Megachile canifrons (is nesting in my BeeTown only a few metres away), Meroglossa rubricata 3rd pic (also nesting in my BeeTown), Lasioglossum (Chililictus) 4th pic female, 5th pic male (they’re ground nesters… Continue reading
-
Here she is finishing off her 7th apartment
Author Marc Newman ◦ I love this bee, it doesn’t mind me up close while she’s busy. Here she is finishing off her 7th apartment and still looks as fresh as a daisy. Interesting to contemplate how many Black Resin… Continue reading
-
Trouble at the nest…
Author Marc Newman ◦ Megachile deanii. I’m assuming male and female, but the “male” was having trouble getting back into the nest. She wasn’t having a bar of him. An eventual truce was reached and he made it inside… 😀… Continue reading
-
So here she is… Euryglossa calaina
Author Gary Taylor ◦ So here she is… Euryglossa calaina in all her splendid glory (well, a small selection)… The fix I was after. So many times I’ve spotted something new and only managed a blurry photo and it’s years… Continue reading
-
The most beautiful Trichocolletes…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ So the whole day was dedicated to getting one pic of one bee, just one job… The most beautiful Trichocolletes, Trichocolletes pulcherrimus. 😉 In Latin pulcher means “beautiful”, rimus is the third declension to the superlative… Continue reading
-
The unmistakable eyes…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ The unmistakable eyes of Megachile aurifrons… From the latin “aurum” meaning gold (and if you remember high school chemistry, why the chemical symbol for gold is Au) and “frons” simply meaning front (or brow when used… Continue reading
-
Bubbling Euryglossinae Dasyhesma…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ With around 800 different species of native bees here in WA (estimated 2,000 Australia wide) I try to bring something new with every post, and although I have posted this little sweetheart before, this is the… Continue reading
-
Megachile (Thaumatosoma) duboulaii… a generalist feeder
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I missed seeing her emerge (that’s ok, her Mum filled four nests in my Beetown, I’ve still got three more chances… 🙂), but this here is the first of the Megachile (Thaumatosoma) duboulaii to emerge from… Continue reading