purple aussie bee's?

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antfan St. Marys, Australia Mar 21, 2010

i see them usually solitary. largest group i ever saw was 3-4 roosting for the night on a leaf stem (they bite into the stem and hang on)

are these some kind of native bee? do they have a hive? (i rarely see them, and only the one time in that small group)

they look like a smaller streamlined bee, purple / violet coloring. they kinda hover and flit from place to place..

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Mar 22, 2010

There are at least a few bee species in Australia with this habit - see http://tinyurl.com/yh8g7ga for an example. Yours may be Homalictus bees (see http://tinyurl.com/yzelghk), but getting a specific i.d. from your description is problematic; there are some 1,500 bee species native to Australia. You might try locating a copy of "Native Bees of the Sydney Region: A Field Guide " - see http://tinyurl.com/ybpz668

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