PEACOCK CARPENTER BEES - XYLOCOPA BOMBYLANS
These big bees, 15 to 24 mm long are the largest native bees in Australia and look spectacular with their metallic-green colouring. They are easy to locate by the loud, deep drone they emit flying between flowers. They are called carpenter bees because they cut nest burrows in soft timber such as the dead limbs of mango trees, dry dead flowering stalks of grass trees and soft wood like banksia. Carpenter bees can be great pollinators of passionfruit |
Night Report:
Adrian Sonego Date: 1 August 2022 |