A colour aberration
I did wonder if this was a teddy bear bee, but after long and hard deliberation - I'm just not sure.
I want it to be a teddy bear - I want it really really badly,
But I tend to think it's just a colour aberration, and it's a blue banded bee after all. It just happens to be bright yellow. I can't find anything in the literature to suggest that they come in a yellow colour, and I also thought that the colour variation only went from white through to blue.
But the bands are the bands of a blue banded, not a teddy bear. And the eyes should be brown.
We went down to the Blueberry Patch, a small commercial grower just outside the small country town of Mt. Compass, south of Adelaide. We took a picnic and had blueberry ice cream for dessert.
The owner has a beautiful cottage garden, and we are permitted to the edge of it. Bees galore, yellow and blue!
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