Video of a Blue-banded bee (Amegilla spp) visiting Annual Bulbine Lilies (Bulbine semibarbata) in Adelaide garden, South Australia. Video recorded 1st November 2015. Yes, it is pollinating the flowers – by headbanging at 350 times per second (buzz pollination)! To see this buzz pollination in incredibly slow motion, see this video on the ABC website here.

The twig seen on this endangered Glycine tabacina plant is not actually a twig. It’s actually an amazingly convincing camouflaged Twig Looper Moth Caterpillar.

Spotted at VPOP: A tiny ‘Jewel Bee’ (Homalictus species) visiting a native flax flower (Linum marginale).

Biodiversity is the variety of all forms of life living together naturally. Since 2000, Vale Park Our Patch has been working to improve our local riverside biodiversity (in appropriate plant associations where ever possible) and make the River Torrens Linear Park in Adelaide a much more effective wildlife corridor. We are thrilled with the results […]