Category: Insects
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The honey bee and the unopen lemon blossom
Author Koh Lin ◦ The European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera for the more sciencey among us) are a common sight among flowering plants. At this time of year in Australia, the citrus trees certainly attract their share of attention. Many… Continue reading
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just when you thought your day couldn’t get any worse
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Stuck on a Hakea with a spike through the wing, just when you thought your day couldn’t get any worse, some big (possible) predator looms in over you… “Oh crap…” 😆 Just a Euro honey bee… Continue reading
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Stop thief but too late…
Author Marc Newman ◦ This is Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) perhumilis on a Eucalyptus leaf… Hylaeus perhumilis bubbling male… Hylaeus perhumilis (female) concentrating nectar, not doing harm to anybody… Hylaeus perhumilis (female)… a Fly arrives on the scene to steal the nectar.… Continue reading
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Insignis and in health…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Insignis and in health… 😄 Do you, Workshop Owner, take this spider to be your lawfully webbed companion..? 😅 I do… and at the fear of sounding like an arachnid polygamist (or at least like I’ve… Continue reading
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suddenly I was set upon by a mob of ravenous wild bees after my toast!
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Here’s another one I mentioned seeing in the “new” bee season, Lasioglossum (Chilalictus), but the Hakea lissocarpha flowers are thick and she is small so I’m going to use some old pics of her for a… Continue reading
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Changing the rules again…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Meroglossa rubricata, part 3, Changing the rules again… Ruby doesn’t always just take her love to town, sometimes the party continues on back at her place 😃 Righto, I gotta say straight up, perhaps this is… Continue reading
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the young emerge
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Righto, Meroglossa rubricata part 2, The young emerge* (*see footnote 😃)… But before I start, a couple of rhetorical questions, Do you have a dog or cat or other pet and can you tell what it’s… Continue reading
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She lives on in her chosen nest protecting the family she’s raising
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Still in BeeTown and back to Meroglossa rubricata, to me the most fascinating of all bees… As I’ve mentioned before, they not only communicate to each other with their own “language” of buzz like vibrations, unlike… Continue reading
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suddenly something bigger came torpedoing out of the nest…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Meroglossa rubricata, the bees in my previous post that seemed to be communicating to each other with short and quiet but audible little buzz vibrations. 😃 In that post I half joked that I was becoming… Continue reading
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In the folds of the Platypus buds
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Rare footage of native bees attacking a flower wasp! 😃 Nah, only joking, it’s just a mid day siesta… Thyreus waroonensis (Waroona Cuckoo bee), flower wasp and Lipotriches (Austranomia) australica all having a snooze together, tucked… Continue reading
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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