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…
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…
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……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…