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This insect has me stumped. Its cute little face reminds me of a bee, but its body suggests a wasp, but there are bees that convincingly look like wasps and vice versa! This tiny cutie was fussing about on some carrot tops (Platysace linearifolia) and was a challenge to photograph because of its size and flightiness. I managed a few photos from different angles in the hopes someone could identify it for me! Found in Springwood, Blue Mountains, NSW.
From the text next to the "hotel" :
Prof. Dr. Herwig Teppner from the Graz University found out, that wild bees visit about (if +2 °C) during 100 collecting flights each daz around 4.500 to 6.500 blossoms. Honey bees achieve only 700 on warmer days.
There are lots of insects that can`t find appropriate hatcheries in our polluted environment.
Conservation of wild bees is getting more and more important for pollination of flowers, bushes, corn and fruit trees. Solitair living wasps and bees gladly use holes (2-8 mm) in pieces of hardwood or brick clay for breeding.
You can also put pieces of twigs of forsytia and black elder in your garden. So you can watch mason bees, face masked bees, and many more bees and tiny wasps living and breeding in your garden. All of them are harmless for you and your children!
The heat has brought he flies out, snapped these on and around the back door. Don't even think it...
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Lepidoptera : Geometridae
Another pretty moth.
Could be Nemoria sp.
reference: bugguide.net/node/view/374
Lynx Spiders are hunting spiders that spend their lives on plants, flowers and shrubs. Nimble runners and jumpers, they rely on their keen eyesight to stalk, chase or ambush prey. Six of their eight eyes are arranged in a hexagon-like pattern, a characteristic that identifies them as members of the family Oxyopidae. They also have spiny legs.
Common genera in the United States include Oxyopes—the common lynx spiders—and Peucetia—the green lynx spiders.
Some members of the genus Oxyopes are abundant enough to be important in agricultural systems as biological control agents. This is especially true of the striped lynx spider (Oxyopes salticus).
A member of the genus Tapinillus is remarkable as being one of the few social spiders, living in colonies.
Sitting on a horse.
Buda Texas
02-03-2008
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Superclass Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Subclass Pterygota (Winged Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)
Family Cerambycidae (Longhorned Beetles)
Subfamily Cerambycinae
Tribe Clytini
Genus and species: Megacyllene caryae
Pentax K-x, Sigma 105 Macro, July 10, 2011.
Je viens de découvrir qu'il s'agit d'une Chryside enflammée (Chrysis ignata), également nommée guêpe coucou, qui parasite les nids d'abeilles solitaires.
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Two walking-stick insects mating in a garden in McDonald's Corners, Ontario Canada. The small brown one is the male and the much larger green one is the female.