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 tiny part of coastal Midwest WA, and what do I need scale for, I know how big it is… 😂 But I went all the way back out, just for Anne, to get a pic for scale… 😆 Nah, truth is I’d seen one of the most exquisite little flying things (hover fly? wasp? dunno…) I’d ever seen the day before and really wanted another go at it… 😃 and try the TG 6 again now set to it’s highest resolution, as well as try to get some better pics of the tiny Euhesma… And of course it was blowing it’s guts out… 😅
So, didn’t get any better pics of the little one, but for scale, 1st pic is my finger next to a fully open flower. 2nd pic is only there so the 3rd pic is side by side to the 1st… 3rd pic, that little black speck (nearly middle of screen), is it… 4th pic, same flower, same bee… 5th pic, I think might be a different one again… eyes aren’t blue and it seems to have a fine white collar… Might just be light reflection, but that would still indicate a different body shape…
But I did get one pic of the exquisite little flying thing, AND a new Megachile… And now the TG 6 pics have jumped from being 2.4 mb to 5.6, still not as good as the TG 4, but all in all a good day… 🙂
Geraldton, Midwest WA © Gary Taylor
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