SALINA BEE
Pseudapis bispinosa
On the levees between the pans’ salt-fields one can see entrances to the burrows of Salina Bees, which dig their nests in the ground.
Every female digs her own nest, but on the pans’ levees bee settlements with hundreds of burrows of these particular bees can be seen. Above the nest-sites, males are circling, looking for young females returning from their regular forage loaded with pollen on their legs.