Category: Gary Taylor
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And the flavour of the month goes to… Megachile aurifrons!
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… 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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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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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 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
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smaller than average little Amegilla…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I don’t usually post banded Amegilla pics, but it’s not ‘cos I haven’t seen ’em, they’re in abundance here, but that’s the thing, so abundant that they’re just a bit common… Don’t get me wrong, I… Continue reading
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Morning Glory
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Ok, first up I apologize for the over abundance of bluey purple 😅 And for the keen eyed gardeners, yes, it’s the dreaded “Morning Glory” vine, 😄 terrible stuff, believe me it’ll cover your house in… Continue reading
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2 bee or not 2 bee
Author Gary Taylor ◦ To bee, or not to bee? That is the question — whether ’tis Stenotritidae (Ctenocolletes) albomarginatus… 😃 Haha, right on cue, earlier this week we stopped at a favourite spot that should be chockers with yellow… Continue reading
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a cuckoo wasp staking out her nest…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Meanwhile, back in BeeTown, a little potter wasp hasn’t even finished building her house, let alone moved in and started storing baby food yet, and she’s already got a cuckoo wasp staking out her nest… Tough… Continue reading