Meet the fascinating Blue-Banded Bee! This solitary bee with bright turquoise-blue stripes doesn't produce honey, but it plays a crucial role in the world of pollination. Blue-Banded Bees perform buzz pollination—the same technique needed to extract pollen from the flowers of tomatoes, eggplants, and many other vegetables. While ordinary bees can't do this, these small but powerful pollinator specialists help increase plant yields with their high-pitched buzzing. These bees build nests in the gr

Blue banded bees are solitary buzz pollinators native to Australia. 💙🐝🇦🇺 They have thick reddish-brown fur on their thorax and a black abdomen with iridescent blue stripes! Males have five stripes and females have four. This female blue banded bee is doing something called nectar robbing. She is drinking the nectar from a hole bitten into the side of this salvia flower, instead of going through the flowers natural opening. This means that the bee avoids contact with the flowers reproductive

This is a Blue Banded Bee. These beautiful native Australian bees are rumored to be attracted to blue and purple flowers. They were certainly enjoying the salvia on the weekend! 💙💜 Blue Banded bees don't produce honey but they are very important to our ecosystem as they are buzz pollinators. This means they get flowers to release pollen by vibrating their wings. They can pollinate some flowers that honey bees are unable to, like tomato flowers. | Flow Hive