Category: Insects
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The Punk Ant
Author Matthew Connors ◦ Alright, it’s time! Finally, I present to you all: The Best Ant! Isn’t she beautiful?? This gorgeous girl is a major worker of Camponotus thadeus, or as I like to call her, the Punk Ant 😂… Continue reading
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A few thousand tenebrionid beetles…
Author Mark Hanlon ◦ I recently donated a few thousand tenebrionid beetles to the WA Museum (among a larger donation of specimens from a collection I acquired recently). Included were a number of specimens that had come from the HW… 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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Precious Jewels…
Author Marianne Broug ◦ There is a new treasure hunt to be had, as you explore our beautiful national parks… Like little precious gems, the glimmer of their colours that catches your attention… a little exhaled gasp of air, admiring… Continue reading
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bares an uncanny resemblance to a bee…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Seeing a few Bembix (sand wasps) on the bee group lately (Bembicini mostly) so here’s another one that bares an uncanny resemblance to a bee, Bembix vespiformis… Sure, this close up you can tell it’s a… Continue reading
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Revision of the genus Chalcophorataenia in Australia
Author Mark Hanlon ◦ Hi All, I am assisting David Frank and Dominic Vondracek from the National Museum in Prague to undertake a revision of the genus Chalcophorataenia in Australia. There are 14 recognised valid species (together with many synonyms)… 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