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Dwarf Honey Bee: 5. Invasion of Wax Moth
6 Nov 2018

Dwarf Honey Bee: 5. Invasion of Wax Moth

by BESG | posted in: Bees and wasps, Insects-others | 2

Dwarf Honey Bee: 1. Colony; 2. What happens when it rains?”; 3. Bees have absconded; 4. A piece of damaged comb. A white larva of about 20 mm long (above) was seen on the pieces of comb salvaged from the … Continued

Dwarf Honey Bees
Dwarf Honey Bee: 4. Piece of damaged comb
31 Oct 2018

Dwarf Honey Bee: 4. Piece of damaged comb

by BESG | posted in: Bees and wasps, Insects-others, Videography | 2

Dwarf Honey Bee: 1. Colony; 2. What happens when it rains?”; 3. Bees have absconded. The absconding of the bees from the nest exposed the honeycomb LINK. Acquiring a piece of damaged comb allowed for detailed observations. Most of the … Continued

Dwarf Honey Bee: 3. Bees have absconded
25 Oct 2018

Dwarf Honey Bee: 3. Bees have absconded

by BESG | posted in: Bees and wasps | 2

Dwarf Honey Bee: 1. Colony; 2. What happens when it rains?”. Less than a week after the colony of Dwarf Honey Bee (Apis andreniformis) colony was detected on a branch of the Golden Penda (Xanthostemon chrysanthus) tree LINK, the bees … Continued

Dwarf Honey Bees
Dwarf Honey Bee: 2. What happens when it rains?
21 Oct 2018

Dwarf Honey Bee: 2. What happens when it rains?

by BESG | posted in: Bees and wasps | 2

Dwarf Honey Bee: 1. Colony The Dwarf Honey Bee (Apis andreniformis) builds its colony in the open, usually round a twig in a bush or small tree. In this instance the tree was a roadside Golden Penda (Xanthostemon chrysanthus) – … Continued

Dwarf Honey Bees
Dwarf Honey Bee: 1. Colony
18 Oct 2018

Dwarf Honey Bee: 1. Colony

by BESG | posted in: Bees and wasps, Videography | 1

In late September 2008, my helper Estela Acierto pointed out a colony of bees gathering around a branch of the Golden Penda tree (Xanthostemon chrysanthus) fronting my house. The colony of bees was so well camouflaged that it took me … Continued

Dwarf Honey Bees
Singapore Rhododendron: Bees, a lizard and a bird
20 Mar 2018

Singapore Rhododendron: Bees, a lizard and a bird

by BESG | posted in: Amphibians-Reptiles, Bees and wasps, Plants | 5

The Singapore or Straits Rhododendron (Melastona malabathricum) is a common weedy shrub that is found all over Singapore. The fruits are sought after by at least 8 species of birds LINK. The seeds are tiny and numerous and pass off … Continued

Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
Blue-Tailed Bee-Eater caught a hornet
20 Feb 2018

Blue-Tailed Bee-Eater caught a hornet

by BESG | posted in: Bee-eaters, Bees and wasps, Feeding-invertebrates | 0

Bee-eaters are so-named because they specialise in catching bees. In addition to bees, they also take carpenter bees, wasps, hornets… not to mention dragonflies, cicadas, beetles, ants, crickets, termites, butterflies, etc. Of these insects, bees, wasps and hornets are the … Continued

Blue-tailed Bee-eater
The Calabash Tree: 2. Flowers and bees
18 Oct 2017

The Calabash Tree: 2. Flowers and bees

by BESG | posted in: Bees and wasps, Plants, Videography | 0

My Calabash Tree (Crescentia cujete) has been flowering for months now LINK. A few young fruits were eventually located. Obviously there was pollination. As the flowers open in the late evening the pollinators could be either moths or bats. The … Continued

Calabash Tree
Common Honey Bees collecting nectar from Caryatid mollissima flowers
3 Sep 2017

Common Honey Bees collecting nectar from Caryatid mollissima flowers

by BESG | posted in: Bees and wasps, Plants, Videography | 3

It was a hot afternoon and the flowers of my Bush Grape (Cayratia mollissima) were covered with Common Honey Bees (Apis cerana). They were mainly collecting nectar from the flowers, as seen from their empty pollen baskets. An earlier post … Continued

Pollination of Ornamental Banana, Musa ornata
2 Aug 2017

Pollination of Ornamental Banana, Musa ornata

by BESG | posted in: Bees and wasps, Plants, Sunbirds | 1

The Ornamental Banana (Musa ornate) is a dwarf banana plant with attractive pink flowers (above). Flowers are unisexual. Male and female flowers are packed between layers of bracts in the same compact inflorescence. As the first few bracts unfold, the … Continued

Musa ornata, Olive-backed Sunbird

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