A study of West Australian native bees has discovered that one little-known species uses small holes in banksia trees as nesting cavities.
Euryglossina perpusilla, one of more than 400 species of small bees that are endemic to Australia, uses nesting holes that range from two to three millimetres in diameter, the study found.
The details are published online in the open-access Journal of Melittology.
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