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Check this out guys and especially @TallTrees! 
The world's biggest bee has been re-discovered after scientists thought it had been lost after 1981 when it was last seen. It's called Wallace's giant bee (Megachile pluto) after Alfred Russel Wallace, who co-developed the theory of evolution with Charles Darwin. It's estimated wingspan is 6 cm and length 4 cm!!
There's a BBC article about it here with more info including a photo comparing the size to a normal honeybee.
@Martin-O2 wrote:Woah that things massive! I wouldn't like to run into that in the garden.
On the subject of bees I saw a photo of this very sucussful bee today.
WOW !!!
@Cleoriff wrote:
@TallTrees wrote:Absolutely right @Anonymous
Wouldn't want those (much as I love bees)
sniffing round your hyacinths!
Or in my case....stuck in my conservatory!! I always rescue normal bees with a glass tumbler and a sheet of paper slid underneath, then let them free in the garden. No idea how I would capture that monster!!
I too rescue bees in the same way as you @Cleoriff
I have rescued them from the ground in the street, wrapping them up in a tissue, taking them home, then feeding them sugar water off a teaspoon ... they quickly fly away ... = ... no flowers with pollen in my yard
