Some photos Of Bees I think are Native

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A couple of shot just this hour taken on one of our Gevilleas.

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The size of the bee is not very evident in the photo.

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However you can see the difference in size to (probably) our bees in this photo.

I am not very patient and while there were masses of these little jobs happily co existing on the flower head with the larger cousins it was hard to get a close up with both bees together.

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I’m wondering if insects in the top photo are native wasps. One of the 12,000 species native to Australia.

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I just don’t know :thinking:
But by crickey the girls are bringing pollen by the leg load. Very orange so I suspect grevillea. I have about 5 varieties flowering their guts out.

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The only thing I was going by was the skinny waist.