Author Gary Taylor ◦ Under the Woolly bush… Stoked with this one, this is another bucket list shot ticked off, Amegilla bubbling. For those unaware it’s something a lot of native bees do. They suck up a heap of nectar…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ First pic, There’s always that one child that refuses to have their midday nap… 😄 I was doing my usual bush run out through midwest WA, had had a pretty successful morning, got some new bees…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ I’ve had a couple more Megachile nests hatch in the last couple of days, and yes I know that word “hatch” is believed by many to be used incorrectly… Haha and I’ll probably get a stern…
aka The Bee and the Spider… Author Marc Newman ◦ The drama took place on a Yellow Button (Chrysocephalum apiculatum)… It wasn’t obvious to me, until I looked back at the photos on the monitor (the photos are in time…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Took a quick run down to a mates place today a bit south of Gero (near Walkaway for those that know the Midwest) to give my dingo girl a run with her dingo boyfriend. Awesome area…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ Just a quick one…gonna try real hard not to get side-tracked this time… just the facts… I try not to post the same bee more than a couple of times and that the last one was…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ The Thyreus waroonensis is kleptoparasitic, cute and just a little clumsy 😄 If there was a list of bees most likely to ‘fall out of bed’ as I call it, they would be right up the…
Author Marc Newman and friends ◦ Our BBB (Blue Banded Bee) and Lipotriches muscosa are both buzz pollinators. On this flowering Nandina, is it a matter of who got here first… The Nandina is nearing the end of flowering, and…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ A quick one before I start my yard work… I spotted this little male Hylaeus on a Flame Grevillea (eriostachya) yesterday. He looked like was about to “bubble” but the wind was waving the long, skinny…
Author Gary Taylor ◦ “Peek-a-boo…”…the Amegilla (Blue banded bees) love the Morning Glory flowers, but they are only morning glory, by midday they’re closing up, done, finito, to be replaced by brand new ones the next morning… For the sleepyhead…