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The $250 dollar bee…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Had to laugh at a Facebook post earlier about spending a fortune on native plants for native bees and only seeing ’em on a $2 daisy… 😆 I remember posting a pic of a lonely little… Continue reading
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They like each other…
Author Marc Newman ◦ Our Superb Fairy-Wren having a rest from keeping our lawn in order… They like each other. Some say… isn’t love grand !! What little darlings… lucky to have this happy family living at our place! Very… Continue reading
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Big bum between the jungle of anthers
Author Gary Taylor ◦ The beautiful big bum of a Blue banded bee busy burrowing into a Banksia, bit boring butt… apart from clearly not being able to easily squeeze that big bum between the jungle of anthers down to… Continue reading
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The Love of your Best Friend
Author Andrew Turner ◦ It was a very special launch of the 2022 Alice Springs Beanie Festival. Ausemade were once again one of the many sponsors at this iconic and fantastic event in Alice Springs that bring entries from around… Continue reading
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A white bubble
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Standing by my BeeTown, watching the Meroglossa rubricata coming and going, I noticed a little white dot pulsating in the darkness of a nest… I knew what it was so I snuck in with my camera… Continue reading
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Instead of going straight, I turned…
Author Shebah Alice Springs ◦ Who would have believed it… after all these days, weeks and months, instead of going straight, I turned… right. Yaaahhhh… having done the endless hours of down the road to Uluru, I finally get to… Continue reading
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Sweet little Hylaeus violaceus
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I nearly didn’t write this one on… Sweet little Hylaeus violaceus lickin’ honey off my finger… Now before anyone brings up that you shouldn’t really give native bees feral honey, let me explain the other option…… Continue reading
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red is the weakest, the first to fade in low light…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ This is one of the Hylaeines, Meroglossa rubricata, not the busiest bee in town, she spends a lot of her day just chillin’ out in her nest watching the world go by… In the post above… Continue reading
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The Right Equipment
Author Shebah Alice Springs ◦ Had a call out from Bianca and Elly this morning from Simpson’s Gap.They needed a new backpack because the one Bianca took was slowing them down. Very important to have the right gear that you… Continue reading
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Party at the nest…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Another Meroglossa rubricata in my BeeTown, not entirely sure what she’s doing. When I first saw her I thought she was a new one emerging from her nest for the first time (tho’ I don’t recall… Continue reading
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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