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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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Strike a pose… potty wasp…
Author Koh Lin ◦ One of the interesting and amazing wasps often seen in Central Australia is the Potter Wasp (Delta latreillei). A fairly large wasp (the one pictured here is just over 3.5 centimetres in length from head to… Continue reading
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There’s more than size, when opposite attracts
Author Koh Lin ◦ Size is not the only difference between the male and female Australian Golden Orb Weaver Spider… they actually look different. This is known as “sexual dimorphism”. As you can see here, in the world of Golden-Orb… 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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Secrets in my garden…
Author Koh Lin ◦ As a well known phrase from a late 1960’s popular American television sitcom… “I see nothing!” That was me… and I suspect a lot of other people. With the growing interest in the natural world around… 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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a penthouse with a view…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Who would have known… that from the first row of single bedroom units — I guess you could call these the ground floor units — an apartment block would be built above them. I might have… 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
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Clam shrimps
Author Marc Newman ◦ Part 3 – Clam shrimps in the Gnammas When I first met Dr Carol Booth, who at the time was editor of Wildlife Australia Magazine, she lived on a property at Greenlands, which is about 10… Continue reading
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Life in the Gnammas…
Author Marc Newman ◦ Part 2 – Life in the Gnammas I went to visit the gnammas in Girraween National Park after the recent rains and although I didn’t find a crustacean — I was hoping to find a clam… Continue reading