It’s not a native bee - www.aussiebee.com.au/beesinyourarea.html
I think you’re right that it’s a western/European honeybee www.aussiebee.com.au/feral-bees.html
Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Wednesday 8 October 2025
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
What is this creature that I sprayed to death?
It’s not a native bee - www.aussiebee.com.au/beesinyourarea.html
I think you’re right that it’s a western/European honeybee www.aussiebee.com.au/feral-bees.html
Friend or foe you reckon?
Well western/European honeybees are kept for farming and pollination, but they do have feral hives in the bush. Hard to know if it was part of a commercial hive or feral, but I lean to feral.
While they do push out our native species, they also pollinate our native plants too, so it’s a grey area.
I try to avoid killing any bees, as a personal rule, because without them we’d all starve, and the global bee population is endangered
Yeah I’d usually leave them alone too but this one was on my curtain inside my house so I figure it’s fair game. Next time I’ll try and catch and release it. Thanks for all the info.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That was a karmic reincarnation of your highschool enemy
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I didn’t have any enemies that I’m aware of.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Remember that one that really embarrassing thing happened to you at school? Yeh that wasn’t an accident like you’ve always thought
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Oh shit!