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Excuse the low quality of this heavily cropped photo but this is the first wool carder bee I have ever seen. (I thought I saw one in a neighbours' garden earlier this summer but it flew off before I could get a close look at it.) The species is a northern hemisphere species new to New Zealand. It was first seen in Nelson and Napier in 2006 and Auckland in 2008. It has been recorded recently in Christchurch by others but this is the first one I've seen.
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Resting on parsley dropwort umbel, 8:30am overcast conditions. This bee becoming common in Warkworth, I first saw one here two or three years ago.
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Some kind of fly pretending it is something more dangerous
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Some kind of fly pretending it is something more dangerous
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Some kind of fly pretending it is something more dangerous
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Photo 1 Mating pair on Rosemary Photo 2 Female on Border begonia Photo 3 Female on White clover
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Photo 1 Mating pair on Rosemary Photo 2 Female on Border begonia Photo 3 Female on White clover
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Photo 1 Mating pair on Rosemary Photo 2 Female on Border begonia Photo 3 Female on White clover
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These things have been around, mostly on our rosemary, for some months. Just sorted out what they were, with this site's help.
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First one this season
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Regular here since 2008
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Regular here since 2008
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Male flying amongst snapdragons
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Wool carder bee struggling out from snapdragon flower. Pollen caked on front of head. Bee upside-down.
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Male flying near snapdragons. Bees regular here since 2008.
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Wool carder bee emerging from snapdragon flower after feeding. Regular here since 2008.
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Unusual ?wasps. This one had drowned.
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Unusual ?wasps. This one had drowned.
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Discovered two German Wasps living in a hole in our deck. Had noticed them around our garden during the last month or so. Rather surprised they can survive in such a small hole.
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Discovered two German Wasps living in a hole in our deck. Had noticed them around our garden during the last month or so. Rather surprised they can survive in such a small hole.
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Carder bee. Very common in a Mount Albert Garden. Watched them bumping bumblebees off flowers.
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Male.