On Ocimum tenuiflorum
Native bee or look-alike on bare sandy soil very close to upper beach
Sighting and photos (c) kat5.
Field Notes - Just 1, buzzed like a bee
African carder bee in Lythrum salicaria
Leafcutter - taken for Wild Pollinator Count
African Carder Bee
Identified as Megachile Eutricharaea simplex on Bowerbird by Bernhard Jacobi: "photos no. 1, 3 and 4 show a Leafcutter Bee, M. (E.) simplex f. Only photo no. 2 indeed shows an African Carder Bee female. The narrow white bands on metasoma are integumental light colour here, while in the Leafcutter Bee the bands are composed of minute white hair."
Bee
Identified as Afranthidium Immanthidium on Bowerbird by Ken Walker: "Well done again Geoff! There is a new project called "African Carder bee monitoring". Could you please join this Project and add this record. Thanks Ken
Ken: Am I correct in thinking this is a different species? It appeared to be a lot bigger and have a different habit."
African Carder bee,female - Afranthidium repetitum
Sighting and photos (c) regb.
Field Notes - about half size of western honey bee.