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No evidence of bee in photo.| Insufficient or inconclusive evidence | DiBickers | 8 Mar 2025 | |
| Amegilla sp. (genus) | KMcCue | 28 Feb 2024 |
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Sonja saw the bee entering the hollow only recently excavated in our driveway and identified it as a Blue-banded Bee.
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8 Mar 2025
@KMcCue is there a bee in this photo (I can’t see one)? Or is it just the excavated dirt from where the bee was digging?
8 Mar 2025
Sorry, no bee in sight, just the ejecta from the hole but a Blue-banded Bee bee was seen entering.
8 Mar 2025
@KMcCue awwww crap…. we can’t ID it based on the debris around its nesting site because it could be any number of our ground-nesting native bees. Even though it was seen entering, we can’t base an ID on third-hand visuals unfortunately (& there’s nothing distinctive to say definitively that this is an Amegilla nesting hole). Sorry, it’s always worth trying though😊
9 Mar 2025
It was just to show others what evidence to look for when trying to find possible bee nests, right under their noses, in this case our driveway. A year ago I didn't even know we had native bees.
9 Mar 2025
@KMcCue I appreciate that & I’m so happy you’ve discovered some natives. So many people think the European Honey Bee & our native Stingless Bees are the only bees we have because of their well-known association with making honey, but there are so many solitary bees which go unnoticed by most. You’ll see so many more now your eyes are attuned to searching for them💚
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