Unsurprisingly, southwestern Western Australia produces many different honeys, each deliciously distinct.
The most prized varieties are produced from rare, endemic species.
However, Western Australia’s southwest also has the world’s highest proportion of flowering plants that do not feed and/or seduce/deceive insect pollinators; these flowers (all, endemic species) favour birds.
(a few rely also/instead on particular, very small, also-endemic mammals)
WA’s floral emblem is bird-adapted.
On yesterday’s afternoon walk at Wireless Hill, I at last managed to take a not-dreadful photo that “captures” the above.
(photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 4.24 pm on 11 September 2022. The bird is Lichmera indistincta, the Brown Honeyeater)
Click here to access an earlier post which links to explanations and further illustrations of vertebrate pollinators at work in Australia’s southwest.
The Spring flowering is now spectacularly evident in Perth’s urban bushlands, especially at Wireless Hill.
To see earlier Wireless Hill posts, click the tag, below; there’ll be one more, very soon.