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 ...

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

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

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.