ORIGINAL FOR SALE "Blue-Banded Beauty" the Australian native Blue-Banded Bee. Acrylic on canvas *FINE ART PRINTS AVAILABLE

Size: 20" x 20" / 51cm x 51cm

Blue Banded Bees are amongst our most beautiful Australian native bees. They are about 11 mm long and have bands of metallic blue fur across their black abdomens.

Fun Fact:Blue Banded Bees can perform a special type of pollination called 'buzz pollination'. Some flowers hide their pollen inside tiny capsules. A Blue Banded Bee can grasp a flower of this type and shiver her flight muscles, causing the pollen to shoot out of the capsule. She can then collect the pollen for her nest and carry it from flower to flower, pollinating the flowers. Quite a few of our native Australian flowers require buzz pollination eg Hibbertia, Senna.