Category: Guest Author

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  The perfect wasp

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ The perfect wasp. So after first spotting this gorgeous little creature, not knowing what it was but seriously disappointed at not getting a pic, 🙁 despite the wind and cloud, I drove the 130 Km ’round… Continue reading

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  A Hawk Moth in Alice…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ I love seeing large moths… and in particular the beautiful Convolvulus Hawk Moth (scientific classification Agrius convolvuli). I stumbled across this specimen on one of my daily working rounds in Alice Springs… it was just lying… Continue reading

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  Eremaea beaufortioides and the smallest bee I’ve ever seen…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ A quick follow up on yesterdays post on the smallest bee I’ve ever seen. I was asked about the flower and something for scale… The flower is Eremaea beaufortioides, a native only found in a comparatively… Continue reading

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  Smallest bee I’ve ever seen…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Smallest bee I’ve ever seen… Dead set maybe a smidge over 2mm (and I’m a carpenter by trade, I know how small a millimetre is). Couldn’t even tell by eye it was a bee, it was… Continue reading

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  How blue is black…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ Sometimes the common name can provide all you need to know… but now and again, it may not say enough. Life is funny like that, as what you see at that moment, may not be the… Continue reading

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  Aus Post Tracking and my mate Murphy…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Woohoo, my working week (well, 3 days) is done, 4 days off, my Eucalyptus platypus is flowering, the bees are turning up (I’ve spotted 5 different species so far but hoping that will double, at least,… Continue reading

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  urbanum or urbanus…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ The question is… “Lasioglossum (Homalictus) urbanum” and “Homalictus urbanus”, the same bee, so which is the correct spelling “urbanum‘ or “urbanus” … ALA has “Lasioglossum (Homalictus) urbanum“. Cath McInnesSame bee, different classification. See linkNow that Homalictus… Continue reading

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  Bembix YY 5000 and Bembix XY 5000

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ From several metres away, as some zipped from flower to flower while others, typical of some male bees, seemed to hover territorially over “their” patch, for a moment I thought I might have found another “new”… Continue reading

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  Skippy, Kangaroos and Wallabies

  Author Koh Lin ◦ I have this memory as a teenager, when we first learnt that we were coming to Australia to live, of expecting to see a kangaroo hopping down the streets of Sydney… this was back in the… Continue reading

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  flying so close…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ When she wants to fly around you… stop… be still… and observe… It is amazing to see Mother Nature so close… but I had to draw a line, when she was checking out my ankles as… Continue reading

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  Intertwined…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ No matter how you view it… events in your life cross and overlap… if it wasn’t for this, that would not have happened… do we call it fate… or was it meant to be… The beginning…… Continue reading

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  The Aussie salute…

  Author Koh Lin ◦ Many Ozzies would know about the “Aussie salute“, whilst others might know it as the “Barcoo salute” (being named after the region around the Barcoo River in Queensland)1. The “Aussie salute” refers to the gesture that… Continue reading