bees

[Janet Russell <>]

I was surprised to see honeybees climbing into our Eremophila laanii flowers last year. We don't get many small honeyeaters in the garden but the Yellow wattle-birds and Eastern Spinebills spend a great deal of time in one long-flowering grevillea albeit at different times of the year. This includes a pair of YWB with dy - this and bottlebrush are targeted.

Can't count more than 10 honey bees at the moment but there are also Tachanid flies, hover flies, native bees, tiny midge-like insects and small (?) day-flying moths. They are mainly focussed on one plant in spite of massive flowering of native plants In our garden - Philotheca myoporoides - long -leaf waxflower.

Janet Russell

On Monday, 6 October 2014, Con Boekel <> wrote:

European honeybees are introduced domestic animals or introduced ferals depending on their function.

I have often wondered what impact bees have on bird species that depend on large amounts of nectar and pollen during the breeding season.

regards

Con

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