Category: Gary Taylor
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Aunty Jack…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I often see posts of wasps (or signs of them) inhabiting bee hotels and people asking if they’re a problem… Basic answer, no… If you see a wasp making a nest in your bee hotel it’s… Continue reading
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the outlaw cowboys…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ What a battle… Meroglossa rubricata versus Megachile “asoc” bee. Both very staunch little bees, I’ve seen rubricata (or “Ruby” as I call her) take on bees several times her size and will regularly chase Euro honeybees… Continue reading
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Male multi-tasking…
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… Continue reading
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the first bubble she threw up
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Here’s something you don’t see too often, gotta say I’ve never seen it before… Not the bee, Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) vittatifrons, they’re probably the most abundant native bee here in midwest WA, and not the “bubbling”, I’ve… Continue reading
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I noticed some debris hanging out of one of the nests
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Contribution Ken Walker Ok, so here’s an oddity… I went to check on my bees… 1st pic, just to set the scene, one of the apartment blocks in my BeeTown showing eight Meroglossa rubricata in their… Continue reading
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Everyone loves a platypus…
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… Continue reading
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Super territorial and awesome to watch…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Not a bee this time, just a Bee fly, Bombyliidae, but possibly the largest fly we have here. They’re like thumbs with wings, super territorial and awesome to watch (and hear) when they fight over a… Continue reading
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So here she is… Euryglossa calaina
Author Gary Taylor ◦ So here she is… Euryglossa calaina in all her splendid glory (well, a small selection)… The fix I was after. So many times I’ve spotted something new and only managed a blurry photo and it’s years… Continue reading
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The most beautiful Trichocolletes…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ So the whole day was dedicated to getting one pic of one bee, just one job… The most beautiful Trichocolletes, Trichocolletes pulcherrimus. 😉 In Latin pulcher means “beautiful”, rimus is the third declension to the superlative… Continue reading
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The unmistakable eyes…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ The unmistakable eyes of Megachile aurifrons… From the latin “aurum” meaning gold (and if you remember high school chemistry, why the chemical symbol for gold is Au) and “frons” simply meaning front (or brow when used… Continue reading
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Bubbling Euryglossinae Dasyhesma…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ With around 800 different species of native bees here in WA (estimated 2,000 Australia wide) I try to bring something new with every post, and although I have posted this little sweetheart before, this is the… Continue reading