Delving Deeply. Xylocopa aestuans, Carpenter Bee, on Crotalaria pallida, Rattlepod, Yayasan Krama Pura Gunung Baleku, Gunung Sari, Lombok, Indonesia
Actually I went to Mount Baleku in Gunung Sari for the view and to get a feeling for the place interestingly described by Alfred Russel Wallace in his The Malay Archipelago. I came too late in the day for the monsoon season, and the mists obscured the views of Mataram from this pretty hill with handsome Hindu Pura. So I looked to the ground.
Here's a Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa aestuans. They're quite hard to photograph because they flit about so erratically. She's drawing nectar from Rattlepod, Crotalaria pallida. Then the rain came down from Rinjani onto the Lesser Hills, and I fled for the car below.
Delving Deeply. Xylocopa aestuans, Carpenter Bee, on Crotalaria pallida, Rattlepod, Yayasan Krama Pura Gunung Baleku, Gunung Sari, Lombok, Indonesia
Actually I went to Mount Baleku in Gunung Sari for the view and to get a feeling for the place interestingly described by Alfred Russel Wallace in his The Malay Archipelago. I came too late in the day for the monsoon season, and the mists obscured the views of Mataram from this pretty hill with handsome Hindu Pura. So I looked to the ground.
Here's a Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa aestuans. They're quite hard to photograph because they flit about so erratically. She's drawing nectar from Rattlepod, Crotalaria pallida. Then the rain came down from Rinjani onto the Lesser Hills, and I fled for the car below.