Category: Western Australia
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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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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
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Changing the rules again…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Meroglossa rubricata, part 3, Changing the rules again… Ruby doesn’t always just take her love to town, sometimes the party continues on back at her place 😃 Righto, I gotta say straight up, perhaps this is… Continue reading
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the young emerge
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Righto, Meroglossa rubricata part 2, The young emerge* (*see footnote 😃)… But before I start, a couple of rhetorical questions, Do you have a dog or cat or other pet and can you tell what it’s… Continue reading
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She lives on in her chosen nest protecting the family she’s raising
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Still in BeeTown and back to Meroglossa rubricata, to me the most fascinating of all bees… As I’ve mentioned before, they not only communicate to each other with their own “language” of buzz like vibrations, unlike… Continue reading
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suddenly something bigger came torpedoing out of the nest…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Meroglossa rubricata, the bees in my previous post that seemed to be communicating to each other with short and quiet but audible little buzz vibrations. 😃 In that post I half joked that I was becoming… Continue reading
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In the folds of the Platypus buds
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Rare footage of native bees attacking a flower wasp! 😃 Nah, only joking, it’s just a mid day siesta… Thyreus waroonensis (Waroona Cuckoo bee), flower wasp and Lipotriches (Austranomia) australica all having a snooze together, tucked… Continue reading
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she said I could call her “June”
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Another little bee I met cruisin’ the Banksias… (she said I could call her “June”… yeah, I know! Weird… it’s normally only the guys that like to give themselves names and as you know it’s usually… Continue reading
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With the shortening of the days
Author Gary Taylor ◦ With the shortening of the days comes the flowering of the Banksias, and with them a whole new array of little native bees. And I make the point of saying “little” bees ‘cos apart from being… Continue reading
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Is your glass half full or half empty?
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Gorgeous little male Megachile on a Banksia, love the big fluffy modified fore tarsi… (Tarsi is just the scientific word for the last major segment of an insect’s legs, in human terms ‘hind tarsi’ would be… Continue reading