Saturday, 9 January 2016

Since New Year...


The oregano and marjoram have come into flower. (Being plants of the Mediterranean region, they don’t seem to mind the 40 degree days we’ve had this past week). Teeny, tiny unassuming flowers that the bees somehow manage to find. 


Native stingless bees love the marjoram blooms. 


And the oregano flowers, a bit more flamboyant, are a favourite of the honey bees. 




The sound of cicadas has become the background ‘music’ to anything done outdoors, in our yard anyway. Only the males make a sound, but unlike their cousins on the East coast which ‘sing’ in unison from high up in trees, West Australian cicadas, tick, tick, tick their solo tunes from trees, and grass, and fences, and paving, just about anywhere they happen to be when the mood takes them. 

 

And best of all, for the first time ever, Wanderer butterflies have been visiting. Hopefully, they'll become a regular summer sight. 

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