Flowering records for native pollinator study

Posted by MichaelMulvaney

 29 Sep 2025

I am an honours student at ANU looking at how urbanisation impacts the bee species that visit local native plant species. I will be comparing the bee visitors in relatively natural locations (i.e nature reserves) to urban areas characterised by mostly paved and built space and modified/manicured greenspaces. The two plant species targeted for this project are Wahlenbergia stricta (Tall bluebell) and Dianella revoluta. As flowering picks up over the coming weeks, it would be great to have records of any large flowering patches (i.e 5 or more open flowers) of either species that anyone observes. To get involved upload the sighting on NatureMapr or email me the location of the flowering patch and a photo if possible. If you are not sure of the flower’s species identity but know that that areWahlenbergia or Dianella please still send them through. My email is burlesslillian@gmail.com.

2 comments

   29 Sep 2025
RogerF wrote:
   10 Oct 2025
Dianella revoluta is a buzz pollinated species with a low visitation rate and and its visiting bees have relatively specialised nesting sites. Flowering of Wahlenbergia stricta peaks in summer and autumn and is visited by small bees such as Exoneura spp. as well as sawflies and tumbling flower beetles. Reed bees also have specialised nesting requirements that are porbaly more important than food sources.

Please Login or Register to comment.

828,957 sightings of 23,535 species from 15,209 members
CCA 3.0 | privacy
NatureMapr is developed by at3am IT Pty Ltd and is proudly Australian made