Category: Insects
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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
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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
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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
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Super territorial and awesome to watch…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Not a bee this time, just a Bee fly, Bombyliidae, but possibly the largest fly we have here. They’re like thumbs with wings, super territorial and awesome to watch (and hear) when they fight over a… Continue reading
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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
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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