Lynn Mathison Photography

21/05/2025

07/05/2025

There is such beauty in the garden. It just takes a moment to pause and notice.

22/03/2025

Blue Banded Bees are amongst our most beautiful Australian native bees. They are about 11 mm long and have bands of metallic blue fur across their black abdomens.

Blue Banded Bees are solitary bees. This means that each female bee mates and then builds a solitary nest by herself. She builds her nest in a shallow burrow in clay soil or sometimes in mudbricks. Many Blue Banded Bees may build their nest burrows in the same spot, close to one another, like neighbouring houses in a village.

Blue Banded Bees can perform a special type of pollination called ‘buzz pollination’. Some flowers hide their pollen inside tiny capsules. A Blue Banded Bee can grasp a flower of this type and shiver her flight muscles, causing the pollen to shoot out of the capsule. She can then collect the pollen for her nest and carry it from flower to flower, pollinating the flowers. Quite a few of our native Australian flowers require buzz pollination

04/09/2024

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30/04/2024

Waiting for @ . So excited.

11/12/2023

When you do for and manage to capture 8 all .

06/10/2023

These are some phone snaps during the first few days of this trip - I haven’t downloaded any images off my camera from Hanoi yet. Such a magical place ❤️

05/10/2023

03/10/2023

28/05/2023

So lucky to see beautiful birds in their natural habitat this afternoon. They are such .

28/04/2023

Walking in the