Author Terry Dunham ◦ One of the many reasons I love finding the Leafless Orchids (Praecoxanthus aphyllus) is the photogenic nature of them… and finding interesting and amusing poses… Here we have a Double Leafless flower stem, and a couple…
Author Phil Warburton ◦ Urban development is usually not great for wildlife. However, surprisingly, there are some good-news stories that we can celebrate, and which give cause for optimism. During the last 100 years, there has been a marked increase…
Author Terry Dunham ◦ Flowering of the Banksias in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia… Following include Banksia coccinea, Banksia sphaerocarpa, Banksia baxteri, Banksia grandis, Banksia nutans, Banksia attenuata and Banksia media flowering now (January 2024) in the Great…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Looking beyond the bower… Our Western Bowerbird has been around for many years now… from our very first blog Treasures of our Western Bowerbird (July 2020), we wrote about the bower being there for some years…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Well… sunny side up… for starters… Who doesn’t like poached eggs… they look glorious when you have them spread-out in front of you. The golden yellow yolks with the classic whites… 😀 But if you look…
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…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Male Megachile (Eutricharaea), macularis I’d reckon. Quick little buggers, this guy wasn’t being very cooperative at the start, but it wasn’t long before he too packed it in due to the heat and went and had…
It has become a little tradition here at Ausemade when we look forward to the New Year and we talk about our Western Bowerbird that still has his bower in our backyard… after a little reminder popped up in our…
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…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Found growing across Australia is the River Red Gum. Although I have always noticed them, I really did not pay too much attention, as living in Central Australia, they were all around me. Since I have…