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Indian stingless bee

Tetragonula iridipennis

Photo by sunnyjosef
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Field Notes

Description:

Pollen collector...
One of the smallest bees, Tetragonula iridipennis is a major pollinator in many crops as well as wild plants. The size of each bee is about 3mm. They are kept for their medicinal honey. They do not have stings and hence called stingless bees.

Habitat:

Spotted on an Amaranthus plant in my garden.

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Comments (4)
Tukup
What a catchy Sunny. Perfect timing. Thanks for sharing that.
sunnyjosef
Thank you Mark... Yes, you are correct. This time I forgot to add. Thanks again.
Mark Ridgway
Sweet shot Sunny. Hope you don't mind I copied your scientific name into that field. I'm guessing you just forgot to do it ?

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PublishedApril 7, 2021

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