ANALYSIS: Aussie bees could save us, and here's how you can help them
Are you worrying about what's happening to the bees? If so, you're probably thinking of just one type of bee: honey bees.for honey bees, driven by fears about declines in bee populations. But the honey bee is only one of roughly 20,000 different species of bee, around 2,000 of which are thought to call Australia home.
Australia's many species of native bees come in a rainbow of colours, patterns and sizes from our smallest species, the diminutive yellow Quasihesma bee which is only 2mm long , to our largest species, the great carpenter bee, which grows to 24mm in length. In some cases, native bees are actually better pollinators than honey bees. Flowers of tomato and eggplant only release their pollen when vibrated at a specific frequency. Honey bees are not able to buzz at the correct frequency and so cannot pollinate these types of flowers.
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