Category: Guest Author

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  A white bubble

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Standing by my BeeTown, watching the Meroglossa rubricata coming and going, I noticed a little white dot pulsating in the darkness of a nest… I knew what it was so I snuck in with my camera… Continue reading

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  Instead of going straight, I turned…

  Author Shebah Alice Springs ◦ Who would have believed it… after all these days, weeks and months, instead of going straight, I turned… right. Yaaahhhh… having done the endless hours of down the road to Uluru, I finally get to… Continue reading

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  Sweet little Hylaeus violaceus

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ I nearly didn’t write this one on… Sweet little Hylaeus violaceus lickin’ honey off my finger… Now before anyone brings up that you shouldn’t really give native bees feral honey, let me explain the other option…… Continue reading

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  red is the weakest, the first to fade in low light…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ This is one of the Hylaeines, Meroglossa rubricata, not the busiest bee in town, she spends a lot of her day just chillin’ out in her nest watching the world go by… In the post above… Continue reading

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  The Right Equipment

  Author Shebah Alice Springs ◦ Had a call out from Bianca and Elly this morning from Simpson’s Gap.They needed a new backpack because the one Bianca took was slowing them down. Very important to have the right gear that you… Continue reading

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  Party at the nest…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Another Meroglossa rubricata in my BeeTown, not entirely sure what she’s doing. When I first saw her I thought she was a new one emerging from her nest for the first time (tho’ I don’t recall… Continue reading

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  Sometimes you can get lucky…

  Author Marc Newman ◦ Back in 2011, we (Bernhard Jacobi, Linda Rogan, Paul Zborowski, and self) were on a GoBeeWA trip looking for bees to photograph. We weren’t fussy what we found because WA bees are pretty special but we… Continue reading

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  Ruby and the wasp

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ There’s always stuff going on in BeeTown… I seem to have a lot of Meroglossa rubricata at the moment, at least eight or nine that I’ve counted, and the girl in the first pic has just… Continue reading

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  an awesome “Commando roll”

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ If only all little natives were as calm as this gorgeous girl 🙂 Meroglossa rubricata… and now if they could just all line up on a twig and take turns landing on the only flower I… Continue reading

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  It’s pollen robbery…

  Author Marc Newman ◦ There appears to be some nefarious happening in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields area of Western Australia… not quite highway robbery… These little Australians are biting open the closed individual flowers of grevillea’s to access the pollen,… Continue reading

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  sleeping Waroona cuckoo bee… under the Woolly Bush

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Thyreus waroonensis, the Waroona cuckoo bee… Fairly common around here but I haven’t got any really good pics of one feeding on a Woolly Bush yet… Haha, for all you wonderful up ‘n’ coming bee stalkers,… Continue reading

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  Under the Woolly Bush… bubbling Amegilla

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Under the Woolly bush… Stoked with this one, this is another bucket list shot ticked off, Amegilla bubbling. For those unaware it’s something a lot of native bees do. They suck up a heap of nectar… Continue reading