The Australian endemic bee, Pharohylaeus lactiferus (Colletidae: Hylaeinae) is a rare species that requires conservation assessment.
This rare "masked" bee, known as Pharohylaeus lactiferus, is native to Australia and is the only species in the genus Pharohylaeus.
The 15-24 mm Great Carpenter Bees are the largest bees in Australia! They cut nest burrows in soft timber such as dead limbs of a mango tree.
The bees can also be called guta or gila, possibly names for the three different species of native bee found in this area. Native bees have huge cultural significance to indigenous people from many parts of Australia, and have played a part in their culture for thousands of years.
Native bee species such as leafcutter bees, mason bees and alkali bees have been developed as efficient pollinators of crops such as lucerne and apples. In Australia, the blue banded bees and the stingless bees show potential as specialist pollinators.
Blue Banded Bees are amongst our most beautiful Australian native bees. They are about 11 mm long and have bands of metallic blue fur across their black abdomens. Blue Banded Bees are solitary bees. This means that each female bee mates and then builds a solitary nest by herself.
Our social native bees are the Stingless Bees and they usually nest inside hollow trees. Two common species are Tetragonula carbonaria and Tetragonula hockingsi (previously called Trigona carbonaria and Trigona hockingsi*).
“Firstly, 'Ngooka' is actually the Ballardong Noongar native word for 'honey' and this honey was sourced by utilizing native plants from the land, and will create income and jobs for the Noongar people,” said Beattie.
Research Work: Honey has been used as a medicine for millennia, particularly as a wound dressing, across many different cultures including Australian Indigenous Peoples.
Indigenous Australians have been harvesting food from the bush for thousands of years, and sugarbag honey from native Australian bees is a popular form of bush tucker. Like European bees, sugarbag bees live in colonies and produce honey from nectar.
Quasihesma Bees (Euryglossina clypearis): Australia's smallest native bee is found in northern Australia and can be as small as 1.8mm. This tiny little pollinator has a distinct black body and yellow face, and loves to forage Eucalypt flowers.
Packages of bees typically weigh 3 pounds, which equals 10,000 bees. A healthy colony filling 2 10-frame deeps contains around 30,000-60,000 bees.
Black carpenter bees are one of the largest species of bees in the United States, and are often found within the Greater Houston area. They look fairly similar to bumblebees and are often mistaken for them, but black carpenter bees are almost entirely black.
Meet the rainbow bee, a.k.a., Homalictus fijiensis, an important plant pollinator that's distributed throughout Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia, and the archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean.
A striking, colourful bird, the Rainbow Bee-eater is medium sized, with a long slim curved bill and a long tail with distinctive tail-streamers. It has a golden crown and a red eye set in a wide black stripe from the base of the bill to the ears, which is edged with a thin blue line.
Not unknown, but very rare.
Real honey from Australian beekeepers
Raw honey is produced by beekeepers such as AB's Honey in Brisbane. When you buy honey from AB's Honey and other beekeepers you can be sure the honey has been extracted from local Australian hives and minimally processed.
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand dictate that the average Australian man can happily guzzle down more than 15 teaspoons of the most contaminated honey sample a day without a second thought about toxins. And the average woman could safely have almost 13 teaspoonsful.
Australia boasts more floral sources for honey bees to forage on than any other country in the world, making our honey the most unique with wide-ranging tastes and colours.
Mob. Colloquially used to mean a group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or "Country". It is used to connect and identify the person and where they are from. "My mob" means my people, or extended family.
Stories of the koala are deeply woven into many different Aboriginal Songlines and Dreaming stories. The word 'koala' can be traced back to the Dharug language of the Greater Sydney region. The word 'gula' means 'no water', referring to the observation that koalas don't drink water.
From the data, the bee sting that hurt most came from a tropical species of carpenter bee (the giant Borneo carpenter bee).
Solitary bees are non-aggressive.
Because solitary bees do not have a store of honey to protect they are non-aggressive, meaning they are safe around pets and children. The males generally have no sting and the females will only sting if handled roughly or trod on.
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In fact, his description of the sting — "light, ephemeral, almost fruity. As if a tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm” — makes it sound more like a salsa you might need to go easy on.