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    Australian native bees are a group of bees that play a crucial role in the pollination of native plants. There are over 1,700 species of native bees in...
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    Thomisus spectabilis (category Spiders of Australia)
    the offspring. The Australian crab spider eats a variety of bees, but the two main varieties are honeybees and Australian native bees. While the spider's...
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    (2000). Native Bees of the Sydney Region. North Richmond, NSW: Australian Native Bee Research Centre. p. 52. ISBN 1-876307-07-2. "Blue Banded Bees" (PDF)...
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    species of Australian Native Stingless Bees by their brood (in a distinctive spiral unique to the species), and by the entrance (these bees tend to daub...
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    change. Australian native bees Fear of bees (apiphobia) Superorganism World Bee Day Triassic nests in a petrified forest in Arizona, implying that bees evolved...
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    honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia. After bees spread...
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    Ceriana ornata (category Insects of Australia)
    an Australian species of hoverfly in the family Syrphidae. Resembling a wasp, this hoverfly preys on other insects including Australian native bees and...
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    the south-west of Western Australia. Beekeepers or apiarists, and their bees, produce honey, beeswax, package bees, queen bee pollen and royal jelly. They...
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    Stingless bees (SB), sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (from about 462 to 552 described species)...
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    to native species include the European wasp, the red fire ant, the yellow crazy ant and feral honeybees which compete with native bees. Australia has...
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    Amegilla bombiformis (category Hymenoptera of Australia)
    of the Bees of the Australian and South Pacific Regions". Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 130: 1–362. Dollin, Anne; Batley, Michael (2000). Native Bees of the...
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  • of morphology identified the bees found in Australia as Halictus hotoni. Because introduced bees may compete with native animals, disrupt plant pollination...
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    Tetragonula hockingsi (category Hymenoptera of Australia)
    "Stingless Bees". ABeeC Hives - Australian Native Bee Hives. Retrieved 2022-08-01. "OATH Beehives". ABeeC Hives - Australian Native Bee Hives. Retrieved...
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    cosmopolitan genus within the bee family Colletidae. This genus is also known as the yellow-faced bees or masked bees. This genus is the only truly globally...
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    Megachilidae (redirect from Resin bees)
    as in other bee families), and their typically elongated labrum. Megachilid genera are most commonly known as mason bees and leafcutter bees, reflecting...
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  • Elizabeth Exley (category Use Australian English from June 2020)
    November 1927 – 1 September 2007) was an entomologist who researched Australian native bees particularly those in the subfamily Euryglossinae. Elizabeth Exley...
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    the domino cuckoo bee, is a species of Australian native bee belonging to the family Apidae, subfamily Apinae. As with the other bees in this genus, T...
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    ISBN 9780849305429. Heard, Tim (30 October 2015). The Australian Native Bee Book. Sugarbag Bees. ISBN 9780646939971. Whelan, W. J.; Cameron, Margaret...
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    honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bees worldwide. The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and...
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    honey bees in Ireland that were completely dark contained less A. m. mellifera DNA than bees with yellow to orange spots on their abdomens, and bees with...
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  • Beekeeping (redirect from Bee-keeping)
    of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives. Honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such...
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    Xylocopa aerata (category Use Australian English from July 2020)
    stocky bee (at nearly 2 cm (0.79 in), one of the largest native bees in southern Australia), it is often heard by its loud low-pitched buzzing while...
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  • Hesperocolletes (redirect from Rottnest bee)
    biodiversity. Australian native bees Hymenoptera of Australia "'Extinct' bee found on the outskirts of Perth". News | The University Of Western Australia. Retrieved...
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    Yellowjacket (redirect from Meat bees)
    sometimes mistakenly called "bees" (as in "meat bees"), given that they are similar in size and general coloration to honey bees, but yellowjackets are actually...
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    Jess Bush (redirect from Bee Totem)
    2019, Bush began developing and exhibiting her ongoing Bee Totem series. She collects dead honey bees from beekeepers, and preserves them in spheres of crystal...
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    Austroplebeia australis (category Hymenoptera of Australia)
    (1996). Nests of Australian Stingless Bees (booklet). Native bees of Australia series. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). North Richmond: Australian Native Bee Research Centre...
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    Bombus terrestris (category Bees described in 1758)
    order Hymenoptera, which is composed of ants, bees, and wasps. The family Apidae specifically consists of bees. It is also part of the subfamily Apinae. There...
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    cyanea is pollinated by a variety of native bees such as Nomia aurantifer, Amegilla pulchra, halictid and colletid bees, and syrphid flies (genus Syritta)...
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    of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Frederick Smith in 1853. An Australian native bee that is larger than the usual native bee, the...
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    Dollin, Anne; Batley, Michael (2000). Native Bees of the Sydney Region. North Richmond, NSW: Australian Native Bee Research Centre. p. 35. ISBN 1-876307-07-2...
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