Tiny metallic bee collects pollen on a thistle flower. She is packing the pollen under her abdomen rather than on her legs.
Metallic green bee works hard in a forest of bottle brush flowers. Bee hairs are designed to collect pollen, as she cleans she packs it under her abdomen.
Tiny stingless bee (Tetragonula sp.) stops to tidy up. Mt Coot-tha, Qld.