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It's a different species though, this is the Australian one: https://imgur.com/X1vf3v4 https://imgur.com/X1vf3v4 Oddly enough they're solitary, rather than liv
by caf 6y ago
It's a different species though, this is the Australian one: https://imgur.com/X1vf3v4 https://imgur.com/X1vf3v4
Oddly enough they're solitary, rather than living in hives.
- BurningFrog 6y agoThat's how you're not found!
- artursapek 6y agoWow, that is a beautiful creature.
- stormdennis 6y agoI think most bees are solitary and live in burrows they make in the ground. And only two species of bee make honey.
- markdown 6y ago> And only two species of bee make honey. Not true, unless you mean that humans only harvest the honey of two species.
- stormdennis 6y agoI'm sure you're right, I was just quoting something someone told me one time and I probably picked them up wrong.
- Gibbon1 6y agoLast time I read about bee's I found that bees range from totally solitary, to gregarious, to communal, to a large number of eusocial colonial species.
- throwanem 6y agoNothing odd about that. The popular concept of a beehive is a style of sociality specific to honeybees, which aren't even native to North America. It's only their economic importance that leads them to be regarded as the "standard" bee.
- leorio 6y agois this Australian? seems like it's endemic to United States FL. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.872575/Osmia_calaminthae https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.8725...
- caf 6y agoBy "this" I meant the bee in the example picture I linked, Amegilla cingulata.