Australian Native Bees (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Australia has over 1,500 species of native bee. Bees can be distinguished from flies in that bees have four wings, where flies have only two. Bees collect pollen, from flowers, to feed their young. Wasps and flies do not do this, although they may be seen eating pollen, so identification is not always easy. Ten of the species, the social native bees Trigona and Austroplebeia have no sting.