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I'm always surprised when I see pollinators in winter. These sweat bees were enjoying a winter dandelion.
Metallic Sweat Bees (Subgenus Dialictus sp.)
Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
White Rock Lake, Dallas Texas
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At just 4 mm length and with their black colouration, these tiny bees are so small, they look like flies when visiting a plant.
This is one of our native, stingless micro bees investigating a small daisy.
We have 14 species of small black stingless bee here in Australia.
Our native bees hold important roles in conserving biodiversity and ecosystem health.
Tetragonula carbonaria 44 mm length
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Often mistaken for flies due to their diminutive size, their colour and their erratic flight. And they don't keep still for long! So very tiny.
Here, I captured one of the bees feeding on a Nemesia flower, itself only 20 mm in diameter. I love that the antennae are carefully held down against the head to allow for real penetration.
I grow these pretty little flowers each spring as they are clearly enjoyed by the native bees.
Stingless sugarbag bee Tetragonula carbonaria 4 mm body length.
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One of our tiny micro-stingless bees with its pollen baskets full.
These ball-shaped collections of pollen are held together with a mixture of saliva and nectar.
They are taken back to the nest and placed in a pollen pot.
So sweet, these tiny, yet tenacious hardworking characters.
The flower is native pigface Carpobrotus glaucescens.
Tetragonula species, just 4 mm length.
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Wild Yellow Flowers and a flying Bee.
Who says bugs can't be cute? I found this tiny furrow bee in a pollinator garden. Native bees actually do a more pollination than the imported honeybee. This cutie is hard at work gathering pollen.
Female Furrow Bee (Halictus sp.)
Bath House Pollinator Garden, White Rock lake
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In the field, shot through grass waving in the breeze...
I only saw a few western honeybees but I saw a lot of different native bees and wasps in the pollinator garden. That was a wonderful sight. I am still working on getting an id for this tiny little bee. If you zoom in really close, you can see it has a pretty blue eye. I'll update the id as it gets more specific.
Tiny native bee Anthophila (Apoidea)
Engelmann's Daisy (Engelmannia peristenia)
Cottonwood Park, Richardson
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neighbour had a swarm outside his house, but he found about 80 dead ones in his garage, very tiny about 1 cm. the beekeeper came and took the swarm away but my neighbour gave me some to photograph as they fascinate me. I can't work out what the ring thing is by its mouth, I have looked at other photos, not its proboscis, I just don't know.
Tiny Bee Lilium - Asiatic Flowers.
Fujifilm X-H1 Classic Chrome simulation with no post processing. SOOC
At just 4 mm length and with their black colouration, these tiny bees are so small, they look like flies when visiting a plant. This is one of our native, charcoal stingless micro bees warming up on a flower bud early morning.
We have eleven species of small black stingless bees here in Australia.
Our native bees hold important roles in conserving biodiversity and ecosystem health.
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Tiny Halictid bees are liking the fresh Cosmos. :-)
Fujifilm X-H1 ACROS simulation with no post processing. SOOC
It may be incredibly tiny, but this native bee together with its kin flying around my bottlebrush plants yesterday brought me a huge amount of joy.
These past few years I've been working hard in the gardens removing lawns, making fresh beds and any new plants brought in have been almost all Australian natives, specific to my area.
With loss of habitat, insecticides, disease and non-native competitors to contend with, our native bees need all the help they can get.
This was my first time trying to photograph these tiny, erratically flying characters - I certainly have deep respect for those people who have produced superb images I've seen during my research and reading.
This is one of our stingless, sugar bag bees, Tetragonula carbonaria.
4 mm length
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Poor little bee must be blinded by theses flowers when she lands on them.
