bee

Today we visited one of our favourite shrub-lands in the State Forest and found this exquisite bee. It was feeding on white bearded heath Leucopogon dielsianus . It stopped for a while to comb its hair and clean its wings.

 

~ size of a honey bee Apis mellifera

 

Anthoglossa callander? www.australiannativebees.com/N_PicLink.php?image=1663

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Anthoglossa sp see terraincognita96 comment below.

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