Category: Western Australia
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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
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she seems to favour the Eucalypts…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ This little cutie, Hylaeus (Rhodohylaeus) proximus, is another one of the “usual culprits” I often see on my bee hunts. And although I’ve seen her on many different types of plants (Hakeas, Banksias, Grevilleas, Melaleucas…) she… Continue reading
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running out of room to add new apartments…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Still in BeeTown, the Meroglossa rubricata population just keeps growing… So, running out of room to add new apartments without blocking out existing ones… gotta respect your existing tenants 😃…imagine finding your dream home, the perfect… Continue reading
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gorgeous girl, with personality
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I mentioned in a post a week or so back that in 1000 odd K’s of bush driving on the hunt for new bees (in horrendous weather) I’d seen nothing, just the “usual culprits”… Boring for… Continue reading
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I needed the buzz of a New Bee fix…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Clocked up about 1000 K’s in the last 2-3 weeks in the hunt for new bees in Midwest WA. It’s either been stinkin’ hot (40+) and blowing it’s guts out (hopeless for macro) or stinkin’ hot… Continue reading
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multicrystaline polyinverted refractionism…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Still in BeeTown, Meroglossa rubricata… these bees are unlike any other bee I’ve ever studied over the years. They don’t try to make and “cap off” as many nests as they can and die after 4… Continue reading
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A beautiful life
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Beautiful Bobby, Rest in Peace ol’ mate… And this is not a post of sadness, it’s about celebrating a long and wonderful life 🙂 Dumped at the door of a wildlife park near Geraldton in a… Continue reading
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Aunty Jack…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I often see posts of wasps (or signs of them) inhabiting bee hotels and people asking if they’re a problem… Basic answer, no… If you see a wasp making a nest in your bee hotel it’s… Continue reading
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the outlaw cowboys…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ What a battle… Meroglossa rubricata versus Megachile “asoc” bee. Both very staunch little bees, I’ve seen rubricata (or “Ruby” as I call her) take on bees several times her size and will regularly chase Euro honeybees… Continue reading
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Male multi-tasking…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Male Megachile (Eutricharaea), macularis I’d reckon. Quick little buggers, this guy wasn’t being very cooperative at the start, but it wasn’t long before he too packed it in due to the heat and went and had… Continue reading
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Welcoming the New Year…
It has become a little tradition here at Ausemade when we look forward to the New Year and we talk about our Western Bowerbird that still has his bower in our backyard… after a little reminder popped up in our… Continue reading
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the first bubble she threw up
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Here’s something you don’t see too often, gotta say I’ve never seen it before… Not the bee, Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) vittatifrons, they’re probably the most abundant native bee here in midwest WA, and not the “bubbling”, I’ve… Continue reading