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Family APIDAE - Bees
The Apidae family includes the famous Honey Bees and the
Australian Native Stingless Bees, they are
the highly social bees. There are also the solitary
and communal species in this family. Their nest sites include ground and tree
holes
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- The introduced Honey Bees always compete with
native bees in Brisbane.
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- They have long tongues which allow them to reach the nectar in tubular
flowers. Of course they feed on shallow flowers as well.
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- Honey Bee
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- Apis mellifera Body length 15mm
- We had mis-identified this insect as a Blue-Banded Bee Amegilla sp.
in this web page. Our
visitor Martyn Robinson of Australian Museum kindly sent us the email and
advised us this should be a honey bee Apis mellifera. Here we would
like to thank you Martyn again. For information about Honey Bees, please
click here.
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- Stingless Bees
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- Trigona carbonaria, body length 4mm
- Stingless Bees are Australia Native Honey Bees. They also known as Sugar-bag
Bees and Sweat Bees. They are common in Brisbane. They are
small in size and do not string. They are black in colour with hairy extended
hind legs for carrying nectar and pollens. They are social bees with very large
colony. Their nest usually built inside living or dead tree trunk. More
information in the Stingless Bees page.
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