Category: Gary Taylor

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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

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  Euhesma “taylori” – part 2

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Back out bush, I have to put one last one on from last week’s pics, the bee I was actually searching for, my latest new bee discovery (Thanks Ken) Euhesma “taylori” 😄 Yeah, I know, it’s… Continue reading

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  Euhesma “taylori” …

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ I am so fickle… 😆 First day off work since I found my new favourite (unknown) bee, the big fluffy golden Stenotritidae, possibly a new species, so I went back out bush hoping for some clues… Continue reading

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  the call of nature

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Here she is, my favourite new bee for the year so far… Isn’t she just gorgeous… These girls are huge (and seriously loud in flight), and so golden and fluffy… And when the light catches that… Continue reading

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  a bit of bubbling…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ A quick one before work… and before I get into this weeks new bees… meanwhile, back at the ranch, with several species of Megachile nesting and the ever growing rubricata population still increasing, my BeeTown is… 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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  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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  I missed that first little happy dance and joy on her face…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Just wanted to say thanks again Barb for the WADA membership, the gorgeous cards 💕 and of course the big parcel of roo jerky for Lupes 💕. I so wish I’d had my camera and caught… Continue reading

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  His head stuck in a can…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Well here’s two things I’ve heard about, but in all the time I’ve spent out in the bush I’ve never actually encountered… 😃 So, doin’ our weekly bush run/road trip, whipping down a quiet little country… 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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  Not a great spot to be snoozin’ little mate…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ So I’m on a quiet little single lane country road, come flyin’ around a corner and see a snake on the road, body in the most beautiful series of “s” curves (7 maybe?) but in the… Continue reading