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I was walking along the track in the early afternoon, checking each flower to see if there were any bees foraging from them. I was checking in the Grevillea sericea when I found something laying down in the flower, crystals of pink pollen clustered on its legs. It was a female reed bee of subgenus Exoneura. She climbed up to the top of the flower after cleaning herself of loose pollen, and I photographed her looking at me before she flew off. This was the first native bee that I found in Oatley, and I was very fortunate that it remains one of my best native bee photos.
I was walking along the track in the early afternoon, checking each flower to see if there were any bees foraging from them. I was checking in the Grevillea sericea when I found something laying down in the flower, crystals of pink pollen clustered on its legs. It was a female reed bee of subgenus Exoneura. She climbed up to the top of the flower after cleaning herself of loose pollen, and I photographed her looking at me before she flew off. This was the first native bee that I found in Oatley, and I was very fortunate that it remains one of my best native bee photos.