Category: Guest Author

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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

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  Under the Woolly Bush…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ First pic, There’s always that one child that refuses to have their midday nap… 😄 I was doing my usual bush run out through midwest WA, had had a pretty successful morning, got some new bees… Continue reading

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  Will you still love me, when I lose my looks…

  Author Marc Newman ◦ Togetherness…kissy… The male is losing his colours, but I think she still loves him :-))) Ahhh. Feels good… Our blue boy back in full plumage… Superb… Footnote & References Check out more blogs and contribution by… Continue reading

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  too bloody cold, I’m going back to bed…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ I’ve had a couple more Megachile nests hatch in the last couple of days, and yes I know that word “hatch” is believed by many to be used incorrectly… Haha and I’ll probably get a stern… Continue reading

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  Living dangerously…

  aka The Bee and the Spider… Author Marc Newman ◦ The drama took place on a Yellow Button (Chrysocephalum apiculatum)… It wasn’t obvious to me, until I looked back at the photos on the monitor (the photos are in time… Continue reading

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  What’s that on the windsock in the poo ponds…

  Author Dorothy L. ◦ A perfect morning at ‘the ponds’, cool and crisp with the sun just over the ranges. No wind, good company and I hadn’t been to the “Poo Ponds” for a while. What’s that on the windsock,… Continue reading

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  Dunno what her chances are…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Took a quick run down to a mates place today a bit south of Gero (near Walkaway for those that know the Midwest) to give my dingo girl a run with her dingo boyfriend. Awesome area… Continue reading