Author Gary Taylor ◦ Velvet ants, one of my all time favourite little critters. In the family Mutillidae they are related to the Thynnid wasps and are a wingless wasp (females only) but oh so much more capable. The females…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ This little cutie is Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) “mysterium puella”, one of my first “unknown” species and the girl that not only drew me into the world of the smaller and lesser known native bees, but also taught…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ So it turns out my new Bembix is likely an entirely new undiscovered species… Cool, but they were crap photos focus wise (my camera isn’t great with moving targets), so I went back out today to…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Here’s a new one for me, pardon the crap pics but they were all I could get… He/she (dunno but for the sake of the story I’ll say “she”) was flighty as… I’m out in the…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ And the flavour of the month goes to… Megachile aurifrons! Well done Fronsy! There’s been some great pics… I didn’t get any 😅 In the first pic she seems to have small eyes and a weirdly…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…