Category: Fauna
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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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It was all over in three frames
Author Dorothy L. ◦ We were all getting along nicely, when suddenly the Singing Honeyeater decided it wasn’t getting enough attention. The Singing Honeyeater lashed out at the Hooded Robin and being female, she wasn’t putting up with it. It… 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
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Is your glass half full or half empty?
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Gorgeous little male Megachile on a Banksia, love the big fluffy modified fore tarsi… (Tarsi is just the scientific word for the last major segment of an insect’s legs, in human terms ‘hind tarsi’ would be… Continue reading
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she seems to favour the Eucalypts…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ This little cutie, Hylaeus (Rhodohylaeus) proximus, is another one of the “usual culprits” I often see on my bee hunts. And although I’ve seen her on many different types of plants (Hakeas, Banksias, Grevilleas, Melaleucas…) she… Continue reading
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running out of room to add new apartments…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Still in BeeTown, the Meroglossa rubricata population just keeps growing… So, running out of room to add new apartments without blocking out existing ones… gotta respect your existing tenants 😃…imagine finding your dream home, the perfect… Continue reading
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not quite the surf… Lifeguard
Author Koh Lin ◦ After my umpteenth rescue, it appeared to me that I was like a surf lifesaver, except without the surfboard, or the surf… ok so there was no beach, and it was just a swimming pool… so… Continue reading
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Strike a pose
Author Dorothy L. ◦ First I have to find the right rock… Action replay… Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) © Dorothy Latimer Check out more blogs and contribution by Dorothy L. Continue reading
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gorgeous girl, with personality
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I mentioned in a post a week or so back that in 1000 odd K’s of bush driving on the hunt for new bees (in horrendous weather) I’d seen nothing, just the “usual culprits”… Boring for… Continue reading
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I needed the buzz of a New Bee fix…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Clocked up about 1000 K’s in the last 2-3 weeks in the hunt for new bees in Midwest WA. It’s either been stinkin’ hot (40+) and blowing it’s guts out (hopeless for macro) or stinkin’ hot… Continue reading