Our native bee - The Blue Banded Bee (Amegilla pulchra)
By Bernieh
16 Jun, 2009
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The Blue-banded Bee has a golden brown head, and the abdomen is striped black and pale blue. It feeds on flowers, often blue coloured flowers - here it's feeding on the streptocarpus which is more of a purple.
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Thanks Milky.
17 Jun, 2009
He's a pretty little feller??
17 Jun, 2009
Wow! Really nice looking bee, so different that what I'm used to seeing.
18 Jun, 2009
Tasteyg - this is our native bee and he is rather large. I do like to see them in amongst the flowers - we've had quite a few bees and butterflies lately.
18 Jun, 2009
Great Closeup and what a handsome Bee love his blue stripes, so different to ours in England
19 Jun, 2009
looks a little dangerous, too.
19 Jun, 2009
Unusual nice colours though
22 Jun, 2009
Awesome!!
9 Aug, 2012
We see lots of them almost all year round.
10 Aug, 2012
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Brilliant photo Bernieh
16 Jun, 2009