If you are looking for a late Christmas present adopting an Australian indigenous be could be the perfect solution. I can email a certificate out immediately.

To date, 1,700 Australian bee species have been identified and named, with estimates that the true figure is closer to 2,000.

Rather than living in hives, most native bees are ground dwelling.

Some, such as blue-banded bees and teddy bear bees, dig shallow burrows in clay soil, while others dig burrows over a metre deep.

A Blue Banded Bee can grasp a flower of this type and shiver her flight muscles, causing the pollen to shoot out of the capsule. She can then collect the pollen for her nest and carry it from flower to flower, pollinating the flowers. Quite a few of our native Australian flowers require buzz pollination

Bee expert Dr Ken Walker says protecting native bees is about continuing an essential "love story" necessary to help native flora thrive.

"If you were to lose a significant part of that native fauna such as bees, then suddenly there would be the knock-on effect of the number of plants that would reduce enormously," he says.

Some of the major factors threatening native bees are habitat loss from agriculture and urban environments, bushfires, pesticide and pollution. 

Please support our work by adopting an Australian native bee. 

There a five bees to collect 

Blue Banded Bee , Leaf cutter Bee,  Sugar Bag Bee,Teddy bear bee.

 The Cuckoo Bee. 

For $10 you can buy a virtual certificate that we can email to you.

https://www.beethecure.com.au/product/adopt-a-bee-virtual-kit/