Blue Banded Bee at Higgins, ACT
Identification history
| Amegilla (Zonamegilla) asserta | 16 Apr 2023 | michael.batley | ||
| Amegilla (Zonamegilla) asserta | 16 Apr 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Amegilla (Zonamegilla) asserta | 16 Apr 2023 | AlisonMilton |
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Larger than the other single blue-banded and they kept working while the other bee settled in to roost for the night. These bees did not roost ont he salvia but 'disappeared', making me think they are different species.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.029644-35.238286
- Altitude 621.7m
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 27 Mar 2023 04:47 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Native Bees of Canberra Home Gardens, a research project. Insects Bees (Hymenoptera, Apiformes) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Salvia Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- Collecting pollen Insect behaviour on flower
- True Pollinator Insect on Flower
Species information
- Amegilla (Zonamegilla) asserta Scientific name
- Blue Banded Bee Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 842.8m Recorded at altitude
- 267 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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