Category: Western Australia

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  Euhesma “taylori” …

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ I am so fickle… 😆 First day off work since I found my new favourite (unknown) bee, the big fluffy golden Stenotritidae, possibly a new species, so I went back out bush hoping for some clues… Continue reading

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  the call of nature

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Here she is, my favourite new bee for the year so far… Isn’t she just gorgeous… These girls are huge (and seriously loud in flight), and so golden and fluffy… And when the light catches that… Continue reading

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  a bit of bubbling…

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ A quick one before work… and before I get into this weeks new bees… meanwhile, back at the ranch, with several species of Megachile nesting and the ever growing rubricata population still increasing, my BeeTown is… Continue reading

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  just when you thought your day couldn’t get any worse

  Author Gary Taylor ◦ Stuck on a Hakea with a spike through the wing, just when you thought your day couldn’t get any worse, some big (possible) predator looms in over you… “Oh crap…” 😆 Just a Euro honey bee… Continue reading

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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