In the garden the Eucalyptus parramattensis has been in flower, with the snowy white blossom drawing in a range of insects. One was a new bee record bringing the garden total up to fifteen species recorded. It is Leioproctus amabilis, the Lovable Leioproctus, a female collecting the white pollen. A smaller unidentified species was also working.
Unidentified due to lack of detail.
A trip to the Marlay Point area to check the flowering Bursarias for insect life was rewarded with another bee species photographed for the first time. It is the Bright-tailed Resin Bee, Megachile lucidiventris.
Another first record was made at the wood heap, when a tiny Pseudoscorpion, Family Chernetidae, came out from a crevice. These prey on other small invertebrates, immobilising them with venom from their nipper glands.