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Category: Insects

Amegilla chlorocyanea in the Banksia © Gary Taylor

Big bum between the jungle of anthers

29 June 2022 Ausemade

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…

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Posted in: Bees, Blog, Fauna, Gary Taylor, Guest Author, Insects, Western Australia
Meroglossa rubricata with a white bubble, Geraldton, Midwest WA © Gary Taylor

A white bubble

24 June 2022 Ausemade

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…

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Posted in: Australia, Bees, Blog, Fauna, Gary Taylor, Guest Author, Insects, Western Australia
Hylaeus violaceus © Gary Taylor

Sweet little Hylaeus violaceus

12 June 2022 Ausemade

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……

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Female Meroglossa rubricata, Midwest WA © Gary Taylor

red is the weakest, the first to fade in low light…

11 June 2022 Ausemade

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…

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Meroglossa rubricata nesting, Midwest WA © Gary Taylor

Party at the nest…

8 June 2022 Ausemade

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…

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Posted in: Australia, Bees, Blog, Fauna, Gary Taylor, Guest Author, Insects, Western Australia
Trichocolletes (Callocolletes) pulcherrimus on Urodon dasyphylla, Coolgardie, WA © Marc Newman

Sometimes you can get lucky…

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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…

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Posted in: Australia, Bees, Blog, Fauna, Guest Author, Insects, Marc Newman, Western Australia
Ruby (Meroglossa rubricata) and the wasp, Midwest WA © Gary Taylor

Ruby and the wasp

6 June 2022 Ausemade

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…

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Posted in: Bees, Blog, Fauna, Gary Taylor, Guest Author, Insects, Wasps, Western Australia
Meroglossa rubricata, Midwest WA © Gary Taylor

an awesome “Commando roll”

5 June 2022 Ausemade

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…

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Posted in: Australia, Bees, Blog, Fauna, Gary Taylor, Guest Author, Insects, Western Australia
Female Hylaeus (Hylaeteron) douglasi extracting pollen from a hole cut into the perianth limb of a flower of Grevillea excelsior still closed. To the left more cut flowers are visible with some remaining crumbs of pollen © Marc Newman

It’s pollen robbery…

4 June 2022 Ausemade

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,…

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Posted in: Australia, Bees, Blog, Fauna, Guest Author, Insects, Marc Newman, Queensland, Western Australia
Thyreus waroonensis under the Woolly Bush, Midwest WA © Gary Taylor

sleeping Waroona cuckoo bee… under the Woolly Bush

2 June 2022 Ausemade

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,…

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