Photos of males roosting on branches. You can see resin on their legs and the branch has also been coated in resin. Quote from The Australian Native Bee Book – page 28 “the males collected outside the nest may be smeared with resin. This may serve some function during courtship behaviour”.
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This is a one piece non splittable box with added
Wayne has had stingless bees for over 60 years and
First there were fires and then floods. These natural disasters
Late 2024 and we continue to see many colony deaths.
I’ve been fine tuning the testing methods over the last
What a great day! I went along to the Bee Expo
While the cyclone wasn’t as damaging as expected the wind
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