Hi everyone, i thought some of u might like this sort of thing... I do :-) Native Australian bees are small about 5 to 6mm long, they have no sting & produce a strong sugar rich honey. Although they can be hived successfully, hives are only about 30cm cubed & the bees do not frame at all so a central nuclease ball of networked honeycomb is created by the bees. Harvest is simply done by breaking off small pieces of honeycomb to be squeezed for honey or used as a garnish on elaborate deserts etc The Australian Aboriginals valued the honey for food & medicinal purposes so much, they sometimes tied a small feather to a tiny bee & follow it home through miles of bush. Pollination with some species is incredibly successful thanks to these little workers who often carry half the load of a European bee, who greatly compete for the Native Bees food, their tiny black shining bodies get totally covered with bright yellow pollen sometimes & they scurry about getting it every were in a frenzy to find every last grain. But i have found some larger species like hippeastrum they are so ifficiont they remove every last bit of pollen & will even leave plants you have pollinated completely void as if you had never pollinated them in the first place. http://flickr.com/photos/67167299@N04/…