Gary Taylor

Guest Author ◦

My interests are just as diverse as they are numerous… Life story would be a ripper but I’m too busy doing it 😆

• OCDB
• A casual stroll through…
• Firetail
• Who, me?…
• No clue have I
• the punch-ups and brawls
• she slowly turns and slips away enticingly…
• The perfect wasp
• Eremaea beaufortioides and the smallest bee I’ve ever seen…
• Smallest bee I’ve ever seen…
• Aus Post Tracking and my mate Murphy…
• Bembix YY 5000 and Bembix XY 5000
• “Snow bees”
• The wing venation thing again and why I suspect it’s Lasioglossum
• Size and shape of the stigma and curve of the basal vein
• But it’s good to see them again
• my mystery Hylaeine…
• More of the Banksia bees…
• Lord of the Bees…
• just regular peak hour traffic
• “The indestructible insect”
• Glad we bagged one before they were all gone…
• it has two tear drop markings on it’s back…
• say hello to Bembix lupiae
• And the flavour of the month goes to… Megachile aurifrons!
• As the platypus season comes to an end…
• After 6 years, I believe your bee is…
• Popping the caps off Eucalyptus platypus flowers like champagne corks…
• bares an uncanny resemblance to a bee…
• Megachile “asoc” bees
• face markings… like the 1980’s rock band eyeliner
• She knows the Euro has been following her…
• smaller than average little Amegilla…
• Morning Glory
• 2 bee or not 2 bee
• a cuckoo wasp staking out her nest…
• Euhesma “taylori” – part 2
• Euhesma “taylori” …
• the call of nature
• a bit of bubbling…
• just when you thought your day couldn’t get any worse
• Insignis and in health…
• I missed that first little happy dance and joy on her face…
• His head stuck in a can…
• suddenly I was set upon by a mob of ravenous wild bees after my toast!
• Not a great spot to be snoozin’ little mate…
• Changing the rules again…
• the young emerge
• She lives on in her chosen nest protecting the family she’s raising
• suddenly something bigger came torpedoing out of the nest…
• In the folds of the Platypus buds
• she said I could call her “June”
• With the shortening of the days
• Is your glass half full or half empty?
• she seems to favour the Eucalypts…
• running out of room to add new apartments…
• gorgeous girl, with personality
• I needed the buzz of a New Bee fix…
• multicrystaline polyinverted refractionism…
• A beautiful life
• Aunty Jack…
• the outlaw cowboys…
• Male multi-tasking…
• the first bubble she threw up
• I noticed some debris hanging out of one of the nests
• Everyone loves a platypus…
• Super territorial and awesome to watch…
• Native bees Euryglossa calaina and Callomelitta antipodes
• So here she is… Euryglossa calaina
• The most beautiful Trichocolletes…
• The unmistakable eyes…
• Bubbling Euryglossinae Dasyhesma…
• Megachile (Thaumatosoma) duboulaii… a generalist feeder
• the fix is good for now but I want more…
• The $250 dollar bee…
• Big bum between the jungle of anthers
• A white bubble
• Sweet little Hylaeus violaceus
• red is the weakest, the first to fade in low light…
• Party at the nest…
• Ruby and the wasp
• an awesome “Commando roll”
• sleeping Waroona cuckoo bee… under the Woolly Bush
• Under the Woolly Bush… bubbling Amegilla
• Under the Woolly Bush…
• too bloody cold, I’m going back to bed…
• Dunno what her chances are…
• Ruby… bubbling
• The bee most likely to fall out of bed…
• To bubble or not to bubble…
• Peek-a-boo…
• Lesser noticed (but often more exquisite) little native bees
• The Coastal Moort
• alone in her last few moments to ponder such a short existence
• The Art of a “Resin Bee”
• Beauty is in the eye of the bee holder
• The more you know…
• Lupes was already there
• They’re not all blue
• Illyarrie

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BLOG SERIES

Following blog series by Gary Taylor:

• Banksia Bees series
  • Lord of the Bees…
  • More of the Banksia bees…

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• Coastal Moort series
  • The Coastal Moort
  • Everyone loves a platypus…
  • In the folds of the Platypus buds
  • Popping the caps off Eucalyptus platypus flowers like champagne corks…
  • As the platypus season comes to an end…

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• Meroglossa rubricata series
  • an awesome “Commando roll”
    • Ruby… bubbling
    • Ruby and the wasp
    • Party at the nest
    • red is the weakest, the first to fade in low light
  • A white bubble

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• Woolly Bush series
  • Under the Woolly Bush…
    • Under the Woolly Bush… bubbling Amegilla
    • sleeping Waroona cuckoo bee… under the Woolly Bush

Selection of pages as contributor/author in Ausemade (you can do a search using “gary taylor”):

• Bees
• Bee Anatomy
  • Pre-pygidial fimbria
• Unidentified Australian Native Bees
  
• Bee Behaviour
  • Bubbling Bees
  • Buzz pollination
• Amegilla chlorocyanea – blue-banded
• Amegilla chlorocyanea – bubbling bee
• Colletidae
• Euryglossinae
  • Euryglossa calaina
• Eutricharaea
• Exoneura
  • Exoneura angophorae
• Hylaeinae
• Hylaeus alcyoneus
• Hylaeus douglasi
• Hylaeus elegans
• Hylaeus (Prosopisteron)
• Hylaeus violaceus
• Hylaeus vittatifrons
• Lasioglossum (Homalictus) dotatum
• Leioproctus
  • Leioproctus excubitor
  • Leioproctus pappus
• Lipotriches (Austronomia) australica
• Lipotriches flavoviridis
• Megachile
  • Megachile aurifrons – five eyes
  • Megachile canifrons
    • Megachile canifrons Protrusion on Clypeus
  • Megachile erythropyga
    • Megachile erythropyga nesting
  • Megachile (Thaumatosoma) duboulaii
• Meroglossa
  • Meroglossa rubricata
    • Bubbling Meroglossa rubricata
    • Meroglossa rubricata Colour Variation
    • Meroglossa rubricata Communication
    • Meroglossa rubricata Female and Male
    • Meroglossa rubricata Flower Selection
    • Meroglossa rubricata Nesting
    • Meroglossa rubricata Threats
• Thyreus
  • Thyreus waroonensis
• Trichocolletes
  • Trichocolletes pulcherrimus

• Australodynerus wasp
• Braconidae
• Sphex rhodosoma

• The Coastal Moort
• Insects on the Moort
• Red-capped Gum

• The Batavia Coast and Midwest WA

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Guest AuthorsAndrew Turner Cassidy Taylor Christoph von Beeren Christopher Peacock Cory Dale Da Qua Danny Thomas David Rennie Deb Taylor Dianne Bickers Dorothy L Gary Taylor Hongming Kan Iskander Kaliananda Jean and Fred Hort JeLa D Ken Walker Koh Lin Marc Newman Marianne Broug Mark Hanlon Matthew Connors Michael Doe Michael Jefferies Nikolas Haass Norm Farmer Phil Warburton Stefan Jones Terry Dunham Toni Ryland Tony Eales