Apis mellifera
European honey bee at Wodonga, VIC
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| Apis mellifera | MichaelMulvaney | 18 Sep 2025 | ||
| Apis mellifera | KylieWaldon | 17 Sep 2025 |
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I always think its cheeky of this species to drink from native species - surely there is enough foreign flowers for them!
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18 Sep 2025
Actually Kylie in a citizen science naturemapr assisted study of Canberra's pollinators we found that 79% of the recorded flower visitations by the European bee were on exotic flowers. But I don't want to sing their virtue as the European bees was a major pollinator of several weed species including Echium species (53% of all recorded visitations on this genus), Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare - 50%), St John’s Wort Hypericum perforatum - 30%) and the Dandelion Group (17%).
27 Sep 2025
wow. that is so interesting MichaelM. They are so much bigger than most of the native bees that when I see them together they just seem to come in a push the native ones out of the way. But whether the native bees would polinate fruit trees or veggies I don't know, and I do like fruit and veg. Kylie TY :)
Location information
- Coordinates 146.873947-36.168245
- Places Wodonga, VIC
Sighting information
- 10 Abundance
- 17 Sep 2025 09:05 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
- Daviesia latifolia (Hop Bitter-Pea) Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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- Apis mellifera Scientific name
- European honey bee Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Major weed or pest
- Up to 6069.1m Recorded at altitude
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