What’s the Buzz?
Stalking a nectar thief
2 min readOct 5, 2021
About thirty years ago, the European Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) appeared in Tasmania. It might have arrived accidentally from New Zealand, where it was introduced to assist in crop pollination, or been smuggled in to make production easier for tomato growers. Unlike mainland Australia, Tasmania has no large native bees that can do the same job.
