Large Beetle, about 3.5 cm in length.
Beautiful metallic blue body, unfortunate my phone camera sucks and can't capture it. found hovering over grass
Field Notes - Herronswood gardens. Lots of summer flowering perenials. Two cuckoo bees seen.
3-4 of these feeding on blooms of Pandorea jasminoides.
Blue-spotted Cuckoo bee, my first sighting in my home area along Karingal Creek
Sighting and photos (c) amelia.
Field Notes - Found sleeping in among sedges with an Amegilla sp. bee as shown in second photo
Chequered Cuckoo bee - Thyreus caeruleopunctatus
Found this native bee in 2018 in our vegie garden at school.
Sleeping with its mouth open, one antenna
On phalaris in the park