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Paracolletes crassipes

6 Acton, ACT

Paracolletes crassipes at Acton, ACT - 17 Jan 2022
Paracolletes crassipes at Acton, ACT - 17 Jan 2022
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Identification history

Paracolletes crassipes 17 Jan 2022 michael.batley
Trichocolletes sp. (genus) 17 Jan 2022 Roger

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User's notes

This bee is the size of a honey bee and looks simular to a honey bee, but doesn't forage on the flowers like a honey bee, also one of the bees was a lot smaller.

2 comments

   17 Jan 2022
The females are busy, busy, busy unlike most European Honeybees and they carry pollen without moistening it with nectar. The smaller individual may have been a male (unless it was carrying pollen).
Roger wrote:
   17 Jan 2022
Thank you Michael, the smaller bee didn't stay long enough to get any images, as you say so busy and flower to flower constantly.

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  • 5mm to 12mm Animal size

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  • Paracolletes crassipes Scientific name
  • Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 639.7m Recorded at altitude
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