Amanita ochrophylla, can be up to 200 mm diameter, this one was close.

Native bees plus a host of other insects have been extremely scarce in the garden this season, with one exception. Blue-banded Bees which have been hard to find for a couple of seasons at least have been quite numerous, visiting the vanilla lily plants which are allowed to run rampant in a raised bed just for this species. A chance but welcome encounter was this Megachile maculariformis, working over the flowers of a Westringia fruiticosa, just two photos were obtained, but more can be seen here, taken on the same shrub five years ago.