[Pollinator] Native bees galore on Eucalyptus livida

[Kit Prendergast]

Dear colleagues,
I recently did a consultancy job surveying a critically endangered plant
for its insect visitors (and potential pollinators). During the surveys
Eucalyptus livida was in bloom, and I took a video to show you just how
EPIC these trees are for our native bees (and other insects). This is not
an isolated phenomenon: our eucs are keystone flora, attracting millions of
insects, many of which specialise on the nectar rich and pollen laden
blooms. Most of the tiny little insects you see are euryglossines and
hylaeines, the former almost exclusively occuring in Australia, and being
also the most species rich subfamily in Australia, woefully many
undescribed (but that's typical of most Australian groups). Both of these
small colletids swallow pollen and are characteristically "naked" (for
bees).

Copy paste this link into your browser to see the frenzy!:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sVFuR2lrh3WTbaSbZL95kfH-8gyf2Ys7/view?usp=sharing

Kind regards,
Kit

-- 
Kit Prendergast
Native bee scientist, conservation biologist and zoologist
PhD researcher (Curtin University) and Forrest Scholar
ORCiD: *https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-6099
<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-6099>*
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