Syndicate, QLD
Identification history
| Mellitidia tomentifera | 18 May 2025 | JasonPStewart |
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Wonderful indigenous bee gathering pollen from, pollinating and perhaps nectar from, flowers of this tree
Kayea larnachiana, –a small individual reproductively–mature healthy example of these trees .
https://naturemapr.org/sightings/4668863
Mossman Gorge, public short loop track last section before it meets the raised walkway of the main track.
2014 October 26th 12:20 – 12:23 pm .
(In old BowerBird –shut down nowadays– was where I first added this sighting of this tree with this Nomiine bee Mellitidia tomentifera—a halictid bee— identified by Bernhard Jacobi therein – thanks heaps for this identification for me – photographs ).
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Location information
- Coordinates 145.330445-16.470581
- Maps Daintree National Park
- Places Syndicate, QLD
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 26 Oct 2014 12:20 PM Recorded on
- JasonPStewart Recorded by
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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 NatureMapr Bees (Hymenoptera, Apiformes) Insects Mellitidia tomentifera
Additional information
- Kayea larnachiana –feeding on the flowers. ( https://naturemapr.org/sightings/4668863 ) . Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Mellitidia tomentifera Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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