Yellow-green austral-nomia
The yellow-green austral-nomia is a shiny little bee from Australia and nearby islands. It can be dark metallic green or shiny gold, and some even shimmer crimson red. It digs its nest in a burrow under the ground.
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Fun facts
The female has a red tip on the end of her body.
The female carries pollen on white hairs on her back legs.
Males like to gather in groups on twigs and plant stems.
Males and females look so different that scientists first gave them two different names, in 1905 and 1912.
Scientists think it may really be several look-alike species that will one day be split up.
Most asked questions about Yellow-green austral-nomia
?What colour is the yellow-green austral-nomia?
From dark metallic green to shiny gold, sometimes with a crimson shimmer.
?Where does the yellow-green austral-nomia nest?
In burrows that it digs under the ground.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lipotriches flavoviridis
- Named by
- Cockerell, 1905
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Lipotriches flavoviridis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Heath Hunter. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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