Category: Western Australia
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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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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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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
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Ruby… bubbling
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Just a quick one…gonna try real hard not to get side-tracked this time… just the facts… I try not to post the same bee more than a couple of times and that the last one was… Continue reading
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The bee most likely to fall out of bed…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ The Thyreus waroonensis is kleptoparasitic, cute and just a little clumsy 😄 If there was a list of bees most likely to ‘fall out of bed’ as I call it, they would be right up the… Continue reading
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To bubble or not to bubble…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ A quick one before I start my yard work… I spotted this little male Hylaeus on a Flame Grevillea (eriostachya) yesterday. He looked like was about to “bubble” but the wind was waving the long, skinny… Continue reading