AUSTRALIAN BEES at the HERB show in BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA.

Evening steemers,
Recently I did a post on the "Herb Awareness Show" in Albion on Brisbane's north-side, click on the link to check it out:
https://steemit.com/gardening/@brizhorticulture/medieval-herb-show-brisbane-australia
The first post is more about the herb side of the show, this post is more about the BEE related stalls they had on offer.
I hope you like BEES!

Bee Corner

Bee corner started off with some rather large print outs of some important parts from Tim Heard's book: The Australian Native Bee Book. Tim Heard works for the CSRIO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) and is a massive part of the BEE research that comes out of Australia! Here is a link to his book, its a great read! http://www.nativebeebook.com.au/

The boxes at the bottom contain real life bees

The second part to the stall had some pictures and information of some of the BEES that your are likely to encounter in the Brisbane area. The bees in the display boxes were the smaller colony species of BEES native to Australia, I remember hearing a few people say "They don't look like Bees!" but BEES they definitely were.

PLEASE FORGIVE THE BLUR AND GLARE, its was hard to reach over people to get a good shot!

All of the BEES in these boxes are native, sting-less and live in colonies, however most of Australia's 2000+ species of BEE are solitary ans live in the ground of in above ground crevices of various types.

I love it when I don't have to type all the names out :-)

They also had Tetragonula carbonaria Brisbane most common colony BEE but I didn't save the photo for some reason.
So I shall just insert one of my picture of it:

This one was very happy collecting pollen on a Lemon Tree

By far my favourite part of the whole show was the fact they brought along an active hive, it was a bit of a cold day so they were a little slow but you could still see some brave ones buzzing in and out of the entrance.

I could have sat and watched these girls fly for hours

Close up you can see they were monitoring the temperature and the cut out in the bottom corner is the entrance to the hive

I hope you have enjoyed reading about these little legends and I encourage you to do some research into these remarkable little creatures.
Happy gardening,
Sam.