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How do you get World Peace?
By: Laurie Deacon How do you get World Peace? Start a Pollinator Link ” garden ” in your local community park or street! Eighteen local community folks come out yesterday for Fun in the Sun! Community Spirit was high. We … Continue reading
Creating Native Bee Homes
by Sandra Tuszynska I have recently had the pleasure of being a part of a workshop that involved creating homes for solitary native bees, at the Woodford Planting Festival. It was really inspiring to see people come together to create homes … Continue reading
The site is prepped!
Originally posted on MGESS Pollinator Link:
IBC tank, ready to go. Job done! Grevillea Oval Embankment is raring to go. The holes are drilled and pre-watered, the rest will hopefully be fun for all. The soil was good digging so…
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Bee Open Day
By Sandra Tuszynska On the 12th of September, Valley Bees are hosting a Bee Community Open day at the Marry Valley Collage in Imbil. The motto is: Bee Inspired and Bee Informed with a myriad of presentations on honeybees and native bees that … Continue reading
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Tagged Bee Open Day, bess, Community, community day, honey, pollination, Presentations, Speakers, Valley Bees
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Living (Pollinator Links) in The Shires
By: Michael Fox The Pollinator Link vision is spreading to the western suburbs with publication of my article about native Blue Banded Bees. Living in The Shires is a quality production with interesting stories/trivia about the local history like the … Continue reading
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Tomatoes need the Blue Banded Bee Buzz
By Sandra Tuszynska Australia has over 1500 identified native bee species. Only about 16 of these are social bees, living in extended family systems. The rest are solitary or semi-social bees and they are essential pollinators of native plants as well as food crops. … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Banded bees, Buzz pollination, flowers, pollination, tomato
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The Water-Less Way of Growing a Garden
By Sandra Tuszynska Most of us find it too time consuming to have a garden. We are used to seeing gardening as something laborious, and which takes time to water and weed. So imagine a garden design where these tasks are … Continue reading
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Tagged water-less garden beds, water-less gardens, wicking beds, wicking garden beds
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Living with a Brush-tail Possum
By Sandra Tuszynska I have recently walked into the spare room, to find a brush-tail possum lying on her back, looking like a napping cat. The Latin name of this creature is Trichosurus vulpecula, meaning “little fox” and in Greek meaning “furry tailed”. … Continue reading
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Tagged Brushtail Possum, furry tailed, little fox, Photography, Trichosurus vulpecula
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The Hawkmoth Vision
by Sandra Tuszynska Moths are often overlooked as pollinators, as many are only active by night and perhaps we often don’t find them as attractive as butterflies. However, moths belong to the same order as butterflies called Lepidoptera and are … Continue reading
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Tagged achromatic vision, chromatic vision, Deilephila elpenor, diurnal, Elephant Hawk-moth, Galium Sphinx moth, hawkmoth, hummingbird hawkmoth, hybernation, Hyles gallii, Hyles lineata, Macroglossum stellatarum, night vision, nocturnal, vision, White-striped Sphinx moth
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The Exhilarating Encounter with a Hummingbird Moth
by Sandra Tuszynska Latest update on Hawk Moths in Australia. About two weeks ago I have experienced something out of my ordinary. I was talking to a friend in her garden at around 6 pm, and as we stood by … Continue reading
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