Category: Insects

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  My yellow hairy bug…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ Another day at work… and after a windy night, I had just finished my morning task of pool maintenance. I had taken the pool cleaner out and there was not one leaf in the pool, or… Continue reading

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  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

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  the fix is good for now but I want more…

  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

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  The $250 dollar bee…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Had to laugh at a Facebook post earlier about spending a fortune on native plants for native bees and only seeing ’em on a $2 daisy… 😆 I remember posting a pic of a lonely little… Continue reading

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  Big bum between the jungle of anthers

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ The beautiful big bum of a Blue banded bee busy burrowing into a Banksia, bit boring butt… apart from clearly not being able to easily squeeze that big bum between the jungle of anthers down to… Continue reading

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  A white bubble

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Standing by my BeeTown, watching the Meroglossa rubricata coming and going, I noticed a little white dot pulsating in the darkness of a nest… I knew what it was so I snuck in with my camera… Continue reading

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  Sweet little Hylaeus violaceus

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ I nearly didn’t write this one on… Sweet little Hylaeus violaceus lickin’ honey off my finger… Now before anyone brings up that you shouldn’t really give native bees feral honey, let me explain the other option…… Continue reading

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  red is the weakest, the first to fade in low light…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ This is one of the Hylaeines, Meroglossa rubricata, not the busiest bee in town, she spends a lot of her day just chillin’ out in her nest watching the world go by… In the post above… Continue reading

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  Party at the nest…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Another Meroglossa rubricata in my BeeTown, not entirely sure what she’s doing. When I first saw her I thought she was a new one emerging from her nest for the first time (tho’ I don’t recall… Continue reading