I was well aware that bees and wasps can come in many different colours, though usually varying degrees of black and yellow, sometimes white and black such as the Bald Faced Hornet in North America. I was quite surprised when I first spotted this blue bee buzzing about the cosmos flowers last year!
I was even more surprised to learn that it is an endangered species!
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Cuckoo bees are cleptoparasites, laying their eggs in the hives of other bees, having the host colony raise their young for them! Not such friendly behaviour from a bee that looks a lot like Disney's Stitch!
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