15 Dec 2017

Critter of the Week Bee aware

From Afternoons, 3:27 pm on 15 December 2017
Native NZ Bee

Native NZ Bee Photo: CC BY-NC_ND 3.0 Phil Bendle

New Zealand has 28 species of native bee, 27 of them are endemic.

DOC’s Threatened Species Ambassador, Nicola Toki, helps us to understand that when it comes to NZ native bees, we’re talking solitary, small, usually black insects that generally mind their own ‘beesness’ and that do not make honey!