Teddy bear bees, blue-banded bees, and carpenter bees are known for buzz pollination.With the exception of stingless honey bees. Australian native bees will use a bee hotel making them great guests in your garden.The other 90% of Australian native bees can sting and don’t build hives. All native honey bees of Australia are stingless. These bees have a queen, worker bees, and male drones which fertilize the queen. 10% of all Australian native bees form hives and lead social lives.
We currently know of over 1,700 species of Australian native bees and just 11 of them are stingless.You can attract bees to your garden by planting plenty of native flowering plants and shrubs. Some species carry the pollen on their legs and others swallow it. Both social and semi-social bees collect pollen to feed their offspring.Semi-social bees and solitary bees love bee hotels. Social (stingless bees), semi-social (Reed Bees, Great Carpenter Bees and Metallic Carpenter Bees), and solitary (Blue Banded Bees and Leafcutter Bees). There are three main types of native bees.
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