I thought you guys would enjoy some pictures i took of these native bees! I’m halfway across the world but we share the same passions.
1. Reed bee (exoneura genus) hard to get to species level ID
2. Woolly sweat bee. Super cool to find one as my last encounter with one was a year ago and the bee flew off before i could get a pic!
3 & 4. Not a wasp!!! A sweat bee! I thought it was a wasp at first.
4. Another sweat bee, not sure of the species.
5. Yet another…. you can guess this one
6. Another reed bee!
7. A common halfband hoverfly
8. Crazy galaxy looking beetle
9. Australian painted lady
The yellow flowers are from a goodenia ovata, and the white are melaleuca ericifolia, the swamp paperbark. I noticed the reed bees and that orange banded sweat bee along with black beetles are the most common visitors to this paperbark species, but the goodenia attracts a far wider range of
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