Green-and-gold nomia bee
The green-and-gold nomia bee is an Australian bee about as big as a honeybee. Its back end has bands of golden hair and a shiny blue-green sheen. It is a buzz pollinator, which means it shakes pollen out of flowers by buzzing.
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Fun facts
When things are just right, tens of thousands of nests can be dug into one field.
The males often sleep together in big clusters.
Up to three females can share a nest, but each one makes her own baby rooms.
A guard bee blocks the nest door with her head in the daytime and with her bottom at night.
In 2019 it was one of four native bees on Australian postage stamps.
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?How big is the green-and-gold nomia bee?
About 10 millimetres long, about the size of a honeybee.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lipotriches australica
- Named by
- Smith, 1875
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Green and gold nomia
Where the facts come from
- Lipotriches australica (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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