The humble Australian native blue-banded bee gets pollen by banging its head on flowers a staggering 350 times a second, slow motion video reveals. Skip to main content. ABC News.

Just over 50.1 per cent (6,815 votes) chose the blue-banded bee (Amegilla cingulata) from a field of six insect finalists selected by an expert panel. The common hoverfly ...

Blue-banded bee named 2024 ABC Australian Insect of the Year as thousands vote in inaugural poll. 1mo. A cute, vividly coloured native bee with a very distinctive buzz is the ABC's first ...

Blue-banded bees are one of a few native Australian bee species that perform a particular type of pollination known as ‘buzz pollination’. Also known as sonication, this type of pollination is really ...

Australia has about 1700 species of native bees, and many of them are being outcompeted by European honeybees.

Native bees have generated quite a lot of interest in recent years. One of the best-known species is the blue-banded bee ...

Blue-banded bee appears in pages of frontier memoir ‘plagued by unacknowledged borrowing’ The pages of an obscure frontier memoir provide rare insight into the potential groundwork for ...

“The blue-banded bee dreaming is further corroborated by a large public mural in Bathurst which depicts the dreaming of the blue-banded bee. The leading artist of the mural, ...

The origin of the blue-banded bees as a myth narrative is more likely than not to be recent, as the earliest accounts of the story appear in the media from early 2022.